Spider gum, bushy yate

Trees or shrubs, to 5 m; trunk light gray or tan, smooth; bark shed in strips and short ribbons. Leaves: petiole 0–1.2 cm; blade light green, elliptic to elongate-elliptic, 5–9 × 1–4 cm, surfaces glossy. Peduncles distinctly flattened, 3–7 × 1–3 cm. Inflorescences 7–19-flowered, umbels compact, globose. Flowers: hypanthium sessile, fused to adjacent hypanthia; calyptra horn- or finger-shaped; stamens yellowish green. Capsules connate; forming compact, globose cluster, 30–60 mm diam., not glaucous; valves 3, strongly exserted, with persistent style remnants.

Flowering spring–summer. Disturbed areas; 60–100 m; introduced; Calif.; sw Australia.

Eucalyptus conferruminata, commonly cultivated as a screen plant in southwestern coastal California, is often sold under the name E. lehmannii (Schauer) Bentham.