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 then grow on before planting out.

Note:Eucalyptusand Corymbiaspecies are fast-growing and should be planted when the young in order to establish a strong root system.

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 dull grey green broad lanceolate to ovate intermediate leaves her short petiole. The thin textured grey green concolorous adult leaves linear to falcate with an acute apex and have a reddish petiole.

Flower: The ovoid to conical buds have a conical or rostrate operculum that is 3-times as long as the smooth hypanthium and the slender pedestal are reddish. When open the staminal filaments are united into a tube towards the centre of the flower and there are 7-flowers arrange in a pendent axillary umbel that appears from late spring to early summer.

Fruit: The globose to hemispherical woody capsules have a depressed disk and the valves are exserted. They have a slender reddish pedestal and appeared in a pendent cluster that is persisted on the tree.