[2] The weeping tree typically grows to a height of 10 to 20 metres (33 to 66 ft)[2][3] and forms a lignotuber.

[3] It blooms around July and produces axillary compound inflorescences in groups of three buds per umbel.

The brown to red-brown coloured seeds within have a length of 3 to 6 mm (0.12 to 0.24 in) and a flattened to saucer-like shape.

[3] Corymbia candida was first formally described by Kenneth Hill and Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson in 1995 in the journal Telopea, from specimens collected near Giralia in 1983.

[3] It is distributed widely through the Pilbara and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it grows in breakaway areas and pebbly plains in clay, sand, loam or gravel red coloured soils.