The bark is tessellated or fibrous-flaky with whitish patches that sheds in short ribbons or small polygonal flakes.

[3][5] Eucalyptus similis was first formally described by the botanist Joseph Maiden in 1913 in the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales from samples collected by G.H.

[8] Found in woodland communities it grows on gentle slopes and flats in deep clay, loamy or sandy soils.

Associated species in the shrub layer, which is also usually sparse, includes Lithomyrtus microphylla, Carissa lanceolata, Gastrolobium grandiflorum and Jacksonia ramosissima.

[9] E. similis can be propagated from seed and is suited to drier areas and is planted as a small shade tree for loamy or sandy soils.