Propagation
Surface sow fresh seed during spring in a well-drained media, and maintain a temperature of 16ş to 18ş C. (61ş to 64ş F). Prick out and pot up when they are large enough to handle.

General pruning information
Eucalyptusspecies require little pruning apart from removal of damaged or dead wood, which should be taken off at the collar. If the tree is cut back hard it will produce epicormic shoots and the crown may be lifted or thinned by removal of selected branches.


Botanic information
Leaf: The grey-green juvenile leaves are ovate to lanceolate, up to 150mm (6in) long with a short petiole. The leathery grey green adult leaves are narrow lanceolate up to 25mm (1in) wide with a petiole up to 12mm (˝in) long and are concolorous.

Flower: The small ovoid buds have hemispherical-conical opercula with short pedicles up to 4mm (?in) long. There are up to 7-flowers are arranged in terminal panicle with a terete pedunclethat is up to 9mm (?in) long and appear during early spring.

Fruit: The shortly pedicellate or sessile woody capsular fruit is hemisphericaland arranged in clusters each with a narrow or obscure disk and 3 to 4-broad erect, strongly exserted valves.