Eucalyptus baxteri

Eucalyptus baxteri, commonly known as brown stringybark, is a medium-sized tree in the family Myrtaceae endemic to south-eastern Australia, occurring in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania on relatively poor, sandy or gravelly soils in sclerophyll forest and woodland. Mature trees typically reach 10 to 35 metres in height with a long, fibrous, deeply furrowed grey-brown stringybark covering the trunk and major branches. Adult leaves are glossy green, lanceolate to falcate, 7 to 17 centimetres long and 1 to 3 centimetres wide, with a paler underside. Flower buds are arranged in axillary clusters of 7 to 15 on flattened peduncles, each bud club-shaped with a conical or hemispherical operculum. Flowers are creamy white and appear from summer to early autumn, attracting nectar-feeding birds and insects. The woody fruit is a hemispherical to truncate-globose capsule 7 to 11 millimetres in diameter with enclosed or rim-level valves, containing small brown seeds.