Height to:	20 m	Diameter to:	1.0 m
Weight:	Seasoned (12% m.c.) approx. 1150 kg/cu.m.	Bark:	Varies from rough grey/brown to smooth, powdery, white
Wood Colour:	Red to dark brown	Flowers:	Creamy white to yellow. December to February
Texture:	Hard, strong, interlocked grain
Adult Leaves:	Green, lanceolate, 20 cm long

This famous tree of Banjo Patterson's 'Waltzing Matilda' inhabits the arid and semi-arid open woodland zones of Australia.

It grows on seasonally inundated country around swamps, billabongs and lagoons and in open belts along watercourses, preferring a clay subsoil. The spread of the tree is often as great as its height providing much needed good shade in these areas.

The common name is of Aboriginal origin and Aborigines used part of the tree to treat snakebite. Its wood is one of the hardest of the Eucalypts.