Eucalyptus andrewsii

Eucalyptus andrewsii Maiden (Myrtaceae), New England blackbutt, is a medium to tall forest tree endemic to the New England Tableland and adjacent escarpments of north-eastern New South Wales and far south-eastern Queensland, Australia. Mature trees commonly reach 20-40 m in height with a straight, well-formed bole and a dense crown. The bark is a distinctive feature: rough, finely fibrous, dark grey to blackish 'blackbutt' bark persists on the trunk and larger branches while the upper limbs are smooth and pale grey, shedding in long ribbons. Adult leaves are alternate, lanceolate to falcate, 8-17 cm long and 1-3 cm wide, glossy green and concolorous. Inflorescences are axillary umbels of seven to eleven white flowers each with a conical to beaked operculum about as long as the hypanthium. The fruit is a small hemispherical to cup-shaped woody capsule 4-7 mm in diameter with three or four enclosed valves. It dominates moist sclerophyll forests on granitic and metasedimentary soils above 750 m.