It has smooth greyish brown bark sometimes with ribbony bark near the base, egg-shaped to lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three, red, pinkish or creamy white flowers and down-turned, conical fruit with prominent ribs.

[10] Pear-fruited mallee grows in flat and gently undulating country between the Murchison River in the north and Dowerin, Goomalling and Cowcowing in the south.

[2][3][5] The flowers of E. pyriformis provide abundant nectar and pollen as a food source for wildlife.

[4] This eucalypt is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.

[7] It is sold commercially as tube stock or as seeds and is planted as an ornamental, as a light screen, habitat for birds and insects and as wind protection.