Eucalyptus dumosa

Eucalyptus dumosa, commonly known as white mallee or dumosa mallee, is a multi-stemmed mallee or small tree in the family Myrtaceae endemic to inland southern Australia, occurring across western New South Wales, north-western Victoria, southern South Australia and the Goldfields of Western Australia, where it forms extensive mallee woodlands on sandy and loamy soils. Mature plants are typically 3 to 9 metres tall with several slender stems arising from a large woody lignotuber. The smooth grey bark sheds in short strips revealing fresh pale grey to greenish surfaces. Adult leaves are dull blue-green, lanceolate to falcate, 7 to 14 centimetres long and 1 to 2 centimetres wide. Flower buds are arranged in axillary umbels of 7 to 11 on stout flattened peduncles, each bud cylindrical with a conical operculum about as long as the hypanthium. Flowers are creamy white, appearing in summer. The fruit is a hemispherical to cup-shaped capsule 5 to 9 millimetres in diameter with strongly enclosed valves and a slightly descending disc.