Eucalyptus acaciiformis
"Eucalyptus acaciiformis", commonly known as wattle-leaved peppermint is a tree growing to about in height that is endemic to the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales. It has rough, fibrous bark, lance-shaped leaves, white flowers and cup-shaped to bell-shaped fruit. It grows in poor shallow soil, on ridges and slopes. Description. "Eucalyptus acaciiformis" is a tree that grows to a height of and has rough, fibrous or stringy, grey to grey-brown bark. The leaves on young plants are elliptic in shape, long and wide. Adult leaves are dull green to grey-green on  both sides, lance-shaped and long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are borne in groups of up to seven in leaf axils on a peduncle long, the individual flowers on a pedicel long. The buds are oval to spindle-shaped, long, wide and the stamens are white. Flowering occurs in December and January and the fruit are cup-shaped to bell-shaped, long and wide. Taxonomy and naming. "Eucalyptus acaciiformis" was first formally described in 1899 by Henry Deane and Joseph Maiden who published the description in "Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales". The  specific epithet ("acaciiformis") refers to the similarity of the leaves of this species to some in the genus "Acacia", the ending "-formis" being a Latin suffix meaning "shaped". Distribution and habitat. Willow-leaved peppermint occurs on the northern tablelands north from Nowendoc and almost to the Queensland border. It grows in poor and shallow soils on slopes and ridges, mostly in woodland.