Eucalyptus panda is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to 20 m (66 ft) and forms a lignotuber.

It has grey to black ironbark from the base of the trunk to the thinnest branches.

[2][3][4] Eucalyptus panda was first formally described in 1958 by Stanley Thatcher Blake from material collected near Barakula by Samuel Roscoe Stevens in 1957.

[5][6] The specific epithet (panda) is from Latin meaning "bent" or "crooked", possibly referring the habit of this ironbark.

[3] Tumbledown ironbark grows in woodland in sandy soil on plains and low ridges from near the Carnarvon National Park, south to Texas in Queensland, and just into New South Wales near Yetman.