Eucalyptus radiata

Eucalyptus radiata is a medium-sized to tall evergreen tree of the Myrtaceae family, typically 15 to 30 metres tall, with a straight trunk and a dense, rounded crown. The fibrous, finely furrowed, grey to grey-brown bark persists to the small branches, where it gives way to smooth, shedding upper bark. Juvenile leaves are opposite, sessile, narrowly lance-shaped to elliptic and dull green, while adult leaves are alternate, petiolate, narrowly lanceolate to almost linear, 6 to 15 centimetres long and 0.5 to 1.5 centimetres wide, slightly curved, glossy dark green on both surfaces, with a strongly aromatic peppermint-like scent when crushed owing to the high 1,8-cineole content. The cream-white flowers, 5 to 8 millimetres across, are borne in dense umbels of 9 to 25 in the leaf axils, with conical to hemispherical opercula and numerous spreading stamens. The fruit is a small, hemispherical to obconic woody capsule 3 to 6 millimetres long with valves enclosed or level with the rim. Native to cool, moist sclerophyll forests of southeastern Australia at moderate elevations.