Eucalyptus globoidea

Eucalyptus globoidea, the white stringybark, is a medium to tall forest tree of the family Myrtaceae, endemic to near-coastal southeastern Australia from Woolgoolga in northern New South Wales south to near Melbourne in Victoria. Mature trees reach 30 to 40 m in height with a straight trunk clothed in characteristic grey to reddish-brown stringy, fibrous bark that is often deeply furrowed and persists to the smaller branches. Juvenile leaves are opposite, egg-shaped to lanceolate and dull green; adult leaves alternate, glossy green, lanceolate to falcate, 8 to 15 cm long with oblique bases. Inflorescences are axillary umbels of eleven to fifteen creamy-white flowers borne September to January, followed by small, hemispherical to globose woody capsules 5 to 7 mm wide, which give the species its epithet. The tree coppices readily after fire and is an important component of dry sclerophyll forest on coastal hills and tablelands.