A Tasmanian Blue Gum (Eucalyptus globulus), occurs as perennial tree, one of the virtually all widely cultivated trees indigen to Australia. It often develop from either 98 to 180 feet (30-55 m) tall.

A bark is shreddy, peeling within prominent strips. A wide adolescent leaves are borne in paired pairs in square stems. It is astir 6 to 15 cm yearn & covered by having the blue-grey, waxen bloom, which is the origin of the most common title "blue gum". A matured leaves come narrow, sickle-falciform & dark shining green. It is intended alternately in fat stems and range from 15 to 35 cm inside length. A buds come top-shaped, costate & verrucose & have a planate operculum bearing a central knob. A cream-creamy-colored flowers are borne singly in the leaf axils & green groceries copious nectar that yields a strongly flavored honey. A fruits are woody & range from either One.Five to Two.Quintet cm from side to side. Many little seeds are shed through valves which open on the top of the fruit. It produces roots throughout the soil profile, rooting several feet deep around occasionally soils. It don't form taproots.

A natural distribution of the mintage includes Tasmania & southern Victoria. There are besides isolated occurences in King Island in Bass Strait and on the summit of the You Yangs.

A Tasmanian Blue Gum wwhen proclaimed as a flowered emblem of Tasmania on 27 November 1962. A mintage title is from either a Latin globulus, a little button, on to a shape of the operculum (the cap on the fruit).