Eucalyptus diversifolia

Eucalyptus diversifolia, often called soap mallee or coastal white mallee, is a multi-stemmed evergreen mallee or small tree in the Myrtaceae family, endemic to southern Australia, where it occurs across coastal and near-coastal areas of South Australia, western Victoria and southern Western Australia. It typically grows 2 to 8 metres tall in a mallee habit, with several slender stems arising from a large woody lignotuber. The bark is smooth throughout, shedding in ribbons to expose fresh greyish-white, cream or pale brown surfaces. Adult leaves are alternate, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, 6 to 11 cm long, glossy mid-green on both surfaces, with a fine reticulate venation. Inflorescences are axillary, usually seven-flowered umbels of cream-white blossoms borne on flattened peduncles; flowering occurs mainly from summer to autumn. The fruits are small cup-shaped to hemispherical capsules, 5 to 8 mm wide, with the valves slightly enclosed. It is a typical component of mallee shrubland on calcareous and sandy soils.