The rough bark is thin and flaky on younger trees but, with age, it becomes thick, dark grey to black, and furrowed.

[2][3][4][5] Eucalyptus sieberi was first formally described in 1962 by Lawrie Johnson in Contributions from the New South Wales Herbarium, from specimens collected by Joseph Maiden in Blackheath in 1899.

[3] Silvertop ash grows in forest and woodland, often in pure stands, on shallow soils of low to medium fertility.

It is found in south-eastern Queensland, through the western slopes and plains of New South Wales, the eastern side of the Great Dividing Range in Victoria, and north-eastern Tasmania.

It is one of the major species being converted into export wood chips at Eden for writing paper production.