Growth rate is moderate. Normally single trunk with handsome dark brown to black bark that is fissured. Leaves are simple, Eucalyptus-like only shorter and broader. Crushed foliage has a peppermint smell. Flowers are small, white and somewhat showy in June.
Branches weep somewhat and foliage is pendulant somewhat like a willow.
For landscape purposes, make good background trees, specimen, espalier, or even tub plants when young. They are frost-tender, but tolerant of many soils and water patterns. As a tree, has a broad, rounded crown. Slow to moderate rate of growth. May be a single or multi-trunked plant.