Eucalyptus parramattensis
Eucalyptus parramattensis, commonly known as the Parramatta red gum or drooping red gum, is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It has smooth, mottled bark, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and hemispherical fruit. Description. "Eucalyptus parramattensis" is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, mottled grey, brown and yellow bark. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull green to bluish leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are narrow  lance-shaped to lance-shaped, the same shade of glossy green on both sides, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are oval, long and wide with a conical operculum. Flowering occurs from November to December and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, hemispherical capsule long and wide, with the valves protruding above the rim. Taxonomy. "Eucalyptus parramattensis" was first formally described in 1913 by Edwin Cuthbert Hall in "Proceedings of  the Linnean Society of New South Wales" from material collected by Richard Thomas Baker. Two subspecies and one variety are accepted by the Australian Plant Census: Distribution and habitat. Parramatta red gum grows in woodland, on flat and gently sloping country, often in wet sites on sandy soils. Subspecies "parramattensis" is found to the north-west of Sydney, subspecies ' in the lower Hunter River and var. ' occurs from near Parramatta to the foothills of the Blue Mountains.