Eucalyptus campanulata, commonly known as the New England blackbutt, gum-topped peppermint[1] or New England ash,[2] is a tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has rough, finely fibrous greyish bark on the trunk and larger branches, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of between eleven and fifteen, white flowers and cup-shaped to conical fruit.
Eucalyptus campanulata is a tree that grows to a height of 25sigfig=1NaNsigfig=1, sometimes and has rough, finely fibrous, greyish brown bark on the trunk and main branches, smooth whitish bark on the thinner branches. The leaves on young plants are lance-shaped to egg-shaped or curved, NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long, NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 wide and bluish or greyish green. The adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, NaNsigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 long and NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 wide on a petiole NaNsigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 long. The leaves are the same bluish green on both surfaces. The flower buds are arranged in groups of between eleven and fifteen on a peduncle NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long, the individual buds on a pedicel NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long. Mature buds are club-shaped, NaNsigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 long and NaNsigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 wide with an operculum as wide as, but shorter than the floral cup. Flowering occurs from October to December and the flowers are white. The fruit is a bell-shaped or conical capsule, NaNsigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 long and NaNsigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 wide on a pedicel NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long.[3]
This species is distinguished from E. andrewsii by the shape of the fruit, being bell-shaped rather than cup-shaped.[4]
Eucalyptus campanulata was first formally described in 1912 by Richard Baker and Henry Smith who published the description in Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales.[5] The specific epithet (campanulata) is a Latin word meaning "bell-shaped", referring to the fruit.[6]
New England blackbutt is widespread and common on fertile soils in wetter areas between south-east Queensland and the southern end of Barrington Tops in New South Wales, especially on the eastern side of the Northern Tablelands.