Blakely's Red Gum, Forest Red Gum                        eu-ka-LIP-tus

• Evergreen tree, single trunk, to about 80 ft (25 m) tall, bark smooth, patches of white, gray, blue-gray, pink, or cream-yellow.  Juvenile leaves alternate, ovate to suborbicular; adult leaves alternate, simple, lanceolate, 9-16 cm × 1-2 cm, apex acuminate, margin entire, petiole 15-22 mm long.  Flowers about 1.5 cm diameter, white or pink, in 7-11 flowered axillary clusters (umbels), buds conical.
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• Hardy to USDA Zone 8    Native to Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland).
• Oregon State Univ., North Willamette Research and Extension Center, Aurora.