Australian tallowwood

Eucalyptus microcorys, commonly known as tallowwood, is a large evergreen tree of the family Myrtaceae, endemic to coastal and near-coastal eastern Australia from north-eastern New South Wales into south-eastern Queensland, where it occurs in wet sclerophyll forest on fertile soils. Mature trees commonly reach 40–60 m in height with a straight, columnar trunk up to 1.5 m in diameter, clothed in persistent, soft, fibrous, reddish-brown bark that extends to the smaller branches. The juvenile leaves are opposite, broadly ovate, while the adult leaves are alternate, petiolate, lanceolate to broad-lanceolate, 7–14 cm long and 1.5–4 cm wide, glossy dark green, with a network of fine reticulate venation. The cream-white flowers are borne in compound axillary or terminal panicles, each individual umbel of seven flowers; floral buds are small, pear-shaped, 3–5 mm long. The fruit is a small, woody capsule 4–7 mm long and wide. The timber is greasy to the touch (hence the common name) and highly valued.