To 30CM. Erect bushy herb covered in flattened, short, white bristly hairs. Loose spikes of tiny pinkish-red flowers Sept – Jan. Small fruit, silvery grey. Full sun, semi-shade.

to 90cm. Semi-aquatic herb with erect stems. Slender grass-like leaves. Narrow cylindric spikelet straw-coloured tinged with dark brown Sept-Mar.

To 15M. Spreading tree with dense crown, rough bark, shedding from upper trunk and branches.

Narrow blue green leaves with weeping habit. Egg to spindle-shaped buds in axillary clusters of 3 creamy flowers Jan-Mar. Nectar source for butterflies and other insects. Round fruit with 3 or 4 projecting valves, disc slightly raised.

To 40M. Low branching tree with dense canopy, bark rough and fibrous to the small branches.

Aromatic, thin-textured narrow leaves. Numerous small club-shaped buds in axillary clusters followed by profuse creamy to pale yellow flowers Oct-Jan. Nectar source for butterflies and other insects.

Small cup-shaped fruit, disc level, 3-4 valves.

To 15M. Slow-growing, small to medium tree sometimes with crooked trunk, compact to spreading blue green crown, rough bark.

Terminal panicles of 7 bluish club-shaped buds, scar present, Sept-Jan. Requires good drainage tolerating poor stony soils, full sun, semi-shade. Profuse flowering produces copious, excellent honey.

To 30M. Rounded low branching tree, bark smooth, bark on young branches reddish.

Weeping glaucous young growth becoming thick shiny grey- to olive-green leaves.
Axillary clusters of 11+ club-shaped buds on thick stalks with creamy flowers Dec-Feb. Fruit cup-shaped, shortly stalked, usually 3 valves, disc level. Nectar source for butterflies and other insects.

To 30M. Variable open to dense tree, loose fibrous to scaly, yellow-brown bark, smooth pale grey to yellow bark on top and branches.

Oval grey-green becoming dull green to greyish lanceolate leaves. Axillary racemes of 7 club-shaped buds followed by profuse perfumed creamy flowers Jul-Feb. Nectar source for butterflies and other insects.

To 20M. Upright tree with spreading crown, bark rough, loose, fibrous at base, smooth yellowish above. Young heart-shaped green or blue-green leaves becoming long olive-green to green.

Axillary clusters of ovoid buds in 3s on long thin stalks, followed by profuse light yellow flowers May – Sept. Nectar source for butterflies and other insects.

Fruit wine-glass shaped with sunken disc and 4-6 sunken valves.

Clubs and shields were made from the wood. Early settlers used o9il distilled from its leaves for a variety of purposes including cough and cold remedy, insecticide and disinfectant.

Status: Vulnerable.

To 40M. Large open spreading tree, smooth mottled bark becoming rough at base. Bluish green when young, becoming long dull green leaves. Axillary racemes of 7-11 long stalked buds followed by profuse cream to pale yellow flowers Nov – Feb with long stamens. Nectar source for butterflies and other insects. Fruit small, rounded with disc raised, 4 strongly projecting valves. Seeds cubed, yellow, smooth.

An important species. Many trees are renowned as corroboree or canoe trees. Food, containers and clubs were other by-products, while the gum treated burns and diarrhoea.