About Eucalyptus drummondii Benth.
Eucalyptus drummondii, commonly known as Drummond's mallee, is most often a mallee that typically grows 3 to 4 meters (9.8 to 13.1 feet) tall, though it sometimes grows as a tree reaching 8 meters (26 feet) tall. This species forms a lignotuber, and has smooth, powdery bark in white, pink, or grey. Young plants and coppice regrowth have alternately arranged leaves, which are shaped from egg-shaped to more or less round, measuring 55 to 80 mm (2.2 to 3.1 in) long and 18 to 55 mm (0.71 to 2.17 in) wide. Adult leaves are grey-green, shaped from narrow elliptical to egg-shaped, 32 to 80 mm (1.3 to 3.1 in) long and 8 to 27 mm (0.31 to 1.06 in) wide, growing on a petiole 7 to 22 mm (0.28 to 0.87 in) long. Flower buds are arranged in groups of seven in leaf axils, growing on an unbranched peduncle 7 to 30 mm (0.28 to 1.18 in) long, with individual buds attached to a pedicel 2 to 12 mm (0.079 to 0.472 in) long. Mature buds are oval, 8 to 18 mm (0.31 to 0.71 in) long and 4 to 10 mm (0.16 to 0.39 in) wide, with a conical to rounded operculum that has a small point at the top. Flowering mainly occurs from September to December, and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody hemispherical capsule 5 to 9 mm (0.20 to 0.35 in) long and 8 to 12 mm (0.31 to 0.47 in) wide, with valves that extend beyond the capsule's rim. Drummond's mallee grows on hilly terrain in soils formed from laterite, sometimes over granite. It is found between Eneabba, Wongan Hills, Bridgetown, and Woodanilling, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, and Warren biogeographic regions of southwestern Australia.
