Eucalyptus bigalerita

Description

The tree typically grows to a height of 6 to 18 metres (20 to 59 ft).The species has a single smooth trunk that varies from pale grey to coppery in colour.It is oftendeciduous during the drier months prior to the wet season and forms a lignotuber.The light green leaves have an ovoid to deltoid shape and are up to 15 centimetres (6 in) long and 10 cm (4 in) wide.The leaves are alternate to sub-opposite with petioles that are 3.5 to 7 centimetres (1.4 to 2.8 in) long.The leaf base is broadly lobed to rounded to tapering to petiole with an entire margin and pointed apex.It blooms in winter and spring between August and September producing yellow-white inflorescences with a diameter of about 15 millimetres (0.59 in).The inflorescence have of five to seven flowers on solitary and axillary umbels.The peduncles are stout,approximately 5 to 10 millimetres (0.20 to 0.39 in) long.The buds are sessile or shortly pedicellate with a globular to obovoid shape approximately 8 to 14 mm (0.31 to 0.55 in) in length and 7 to 11 mm (0.28 to 0.43 in) wide.The plant is easily propagated from seed which germinates readily.