Eucalyptus tenuiramis Miq.
Small to medium-sized tree; bark smooth and grey, or sometimes hard and persistent near base. Young shoots and young lvs glaucous-white, the lvs becoming glaucescent at maturity, peppermint-scented. Juvenile lvs opposite, sessile, broad-ovate or ovate; base cordate. Adult lvs with slender petiole 5-15-(20) mm long; lamina 6-13 × 0.8-2 cm, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, ± falcate, concolorous, subcoriaceous; lateral veins diverging at angles of 20-50° from midrib; base cuneate, symmetric; apex mucronate or acute. Umbels axillary, of (6)-8-13 fls; peduncles 5-8 mm long, terete; pedicels very short. Buds c. 5 mm long, glaucous-white, clavate; operculum hemispheric, much < hypanthium. Stamens white; anthers reniform. Fr. shortly pedicellate, 5-8 × 6-9 mm, pyriform to sub-hemispheric, glaucous-white; valves 4, level with capsule rim or slightly sunken; disc c. 2 mm wide, flat or somewhat oblique.
N.: Kaingaroa and Whakarewarewa State Forests near Rotorua.
Tasmania 1988
In and around plantations and along forest paths and roadsides.
FL Aug-Nov.
E. tenuiramis is occasionally cultivated as an ornamental tree in cooler parts of N.Z., and occurs in plantations at Whakarewarewa and Waiatapu, near Rotorua. In Tasmania it is known as silver peppermint, and it has been previously known as in N.Z. as E. tasmanica.
