Eucalyptus laevopinea, commonly known as the silver top stringybark,[2] is a tree that is endemic to eastern Australia.
It has rough, stringy greyish bark on the trunk and larger branches, glossy green, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white flowers and hemispherical or shortened spherical fruit.Eucalyptus laevopinea is a tree that typically grows to a height of 40 m (130 ft) and forms a lignotuber.
The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven, nine or eleven on an unbranched peduncle 6–17 mm (0.24–0.67 in) long, the individual buds on pedicels 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long.
The fruit is a woody hemispherical or shortened spherical capsule 4–9 mm (0.16–0.35 in) long and 7–15 mm (0.28–0.59 in) wide with the valves near rim level or slightly protruding.
[2][3][4][5] Eucalyptus laevopinea was first described in 1898 by Richard Thomas Baker in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.