Common name: Yellow Gum, Blue Gum, White Ironbark
Eucalyptus leucoxylon F.Muell. APNI* 
Description: Tree to 15 m high; bark smooth or persistent on lower trunk, shedding irregularly, grey-brown, fibrous-flaky ('box'), smooth above, grey or yellow, shedding in short ribbons or flakes.
Juvenile leaves opposite after 13th node, ovate to broad-lanceolate, glaucous. Adult leaves disjunct, narrow-lanceolate or lanceolate, 8–15 cm long, 1–1.8 cm wide, green or grey-green or yellow-green, dull, concolorous.
Umbellasters 3-flowered; peduncle terete, 7–10 mm long; pedicels terete, 4–10 mm long. Buds ovoid, glaucous, 8–14 mm long, 5–6 mm diam., scar absent; calyptra conical or rostrate, shorter than and narrower than hypanthium. Outer stamens infertile; anthers cuboid.
Fruit globose or hemispherical, 6–9-locular, 8–11 mm long, 8–10 mm diam.; disc depressed; valves enclosed.
Distribution and occurrence: Localized in N.S.W., in grassy woodland on moderately fertile loamy or alluvial soils; scattered occurrences along the Murray west from Barham.
NSW subdivisions: SWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Vic. S.A.
Text by K.D. Hill
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