Eucalyptus rubida

The candlebark eucalyptus or candlebark gum is in the myrtle or Myrtaceae family and is indigenous to open woodland of south-eastern Australia and Tasmania. It can reach up to 35 m in height.

• Branchlets are greenish yellow to red; trunk often has black, horizontal insect scars.
• Juvenile leaves are sessile, opposite for many nodes, orbicular, up to 6 cm long and 5 cm wide, glaucous; adult leaves have petioles, are alternate, lanceolate, 9–15 cm long and 1–2.4 cm wide, uniform colour, dull or glossy, maturing slate grey; reticulation dense, with scattered, often obscure, oil glands.
• Flower buds are ovoid and often very glaucous, in groups of 3 (occasionally 7), developing into umbellasters (groups of flowers developing from a point).
• The tree is covered with a mass of white flowers in the spring; they have no petals but have fluffy, showy stamens, enclosed in a cap called an operculum (composed of fused sepals or petals, or both).
• Fruit is a woody, cup-shaped capsule with a wide, flattened disc.
• The bark is smooth and white, with unshaded limbs often turning red or orange in the summer; old bark at the base of the tree gives the appearance of a stubby candle.