Mottled or red spotted or brittle gum

Eucalyptus maculosa R. T. Baker

Trees, to 20 m; trunk white and grayish white, mottled, smooth, powdery to touch; bark shedding. Leaves: (juvenile alter­nate, petiolate); petiole 0.5–2.2 cm; blade green to bluish green or, occasionally, grayish green, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate or falcate, 7–18.5 × 1–3 cm, surfaces dull. Peduncles 0.5–-1 cm. Inflorescences ca. 7-flowered; umbels. Flowers: hypanthium obconic, 2–4 mm, length ± equaling calyptra; calyptra conic to rounded, 2–4 mm; stamens white. Capsules hemispheric to obconic, 3–5 mm, not glaucous; valves 3, exserted.

Flowering spring–summer. Disturbed coastal and urban areas; 0–200 m; introduced; Calif.; se Australia.

Eucalyptus mannifera is known from the Central Coast, San Francisco Bay area, and Outer South Coast Ranges.