Alpine Snow Gum, Snow Gum                        eu-ka-LIP-tus

• Evergreen tree or large shrub, to 20 ft (6 m) tall, sometimes only to about 4 ft (1.2 m), low branching habit, young shoots red with a white bloom.  Bark smooth, white to light gray, sometimes red-brown, shedding in irregular patches, giving mottled appearance.  Juvenile leaves opposite, ovate; adult leaves broadly lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 5-8 cm long and 1-2 cm wide, thick, green to blue-green, petiole channeled, 1-2 cm long.  Flowers white or cream.   Fruit globose or conical or pyriform.
• Sun, drought tolerant.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 7    Native to the Snowy Mountains of Australia, New South Wales and Victoria above 1500m (5000ft).
• pauciflora: from pauci, few and flora, flower;     nipophila: from the Greek, niphos, snow, a reference to the white bloom which covers the twigs.
• Scappoose, Oregon: Joy Creek Nursery