Dwyer's Red Gum

Eucalyptus dwyeri is a tree that typically grows to a height of 10–15 m (33–49 ft) or a mallee to 6 m (20 ft), and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth white to cream coloured or greyish brown bark that is shed in plates or flakes. Young plants and coppice regrowth have lance-shaped leaves that are 50–150 mm (2.0–5.9 in) long and 10–25 mm (0.39–0.98 in) wide. Adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, 70–150 mm (2.8–5.9 in) long and 10–27 mm (0.39–1.06 in) wide on a petiole 10–22 mm (0.39–0.87 in) long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven in leaf axils on an unbranched peduncle 3–10 mm (0.12–0.39 in) long, the individual buds sessile or on a pedicel up to 5 mm (0.20 in) long. Mature buds are oval to diamond-shaped, 6–13 mm (0.24–0.51 in) long and 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) wide with a conical operculum. Flowering occurs from September to December and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody conical, bell-shaped or hemispherical capsule 3–9 mm (0.12–0.35 in) long and 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) wide with the valves at rim level or slightly beyond.

Dwyer's red gum grows in mallee shrubland in shallow soils on ridges west of the Great Dividing Range in New South Wales and southern Queensland. It has also been recorded from northern Victoria but the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria suggests that these records are better referred to E. blakelyi.

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