Eucalyptus radiata
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 Eucalyptus radiata, Melbourne
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Eucalyptus radiata (Narrow-leaved peppermint) is a medium to tall tree to 30 m high (rarely 50m) with persistent bark on the trunk and larger branches or persistent to smaller branches. The bark shortly fibrous ("peppermint"), grey to grey-brown, shedding in long ribbons. The branchlets are green. Adult leaves are narrow lanceolate or lanceolate, falcate, acute, basally tapered, glossy or semi-glossy, green, thin, concolorous, 7–15 cm long, 0.7–1.5 mm wide.
Summer flowers are cream yellow. [1]
