Where found

Dry forest and woodland. Coast, ranges, and tablelands, north of Batemans Bay.

Notes

Tree to 20 m tall, rarely a mallee.  Bark smooth throughout, with scribbles, shedding in short ribbons, often powdery.  Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 3 to 6 pairs, then alternating up the stems, 5-17 cm long, 25-85 mm wide, dull, blue-green or grey-green to green.  Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 5-20 cm long, 10-40 mm wide, glossy to dull, grey-green to green.  Flowers white, with 0 petals.  Flower clusters 7-15 flowered, usually at the bases of the leaves, but occasionally forming large compound clusters at the ends of the branchlets.  Mature flower buds 3–6 mm long, caps shorter than the base.  A few outer stamens not producing pollen.  Flowers most of the year.  Gumnuts 4-7 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable. 

Extensive intergradation occurs with Eucalyptus haemastoma. 

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~racemosa  (accessed 20 April 2021).

Eucalyptus racemosa subsp. racemosa in EUCLID.

EUCLID description (as Eucalyptus racemosa subsp. racemosa):  https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_racemosa_subsp._racemosa.htm  (accessed 20 April 2021)