It has mostly smooth bark with some persistent slabs of old bark at the base, juvenile leaves with one glaucous side, glossy, lance-shaped adult leaves, warty flower buds arranged singly in leaf axils, white flowers and hemispherical to conical fruit that is more or less square in cross-section.Eucalyptus globulus subsp.

[2][3][4] The flower buds are arranged singly in leaf axils on a thick peduncle that is sessile or up to 5 mm (0.20 in) long.

[8][9] This blue gum grows in woodland and forest in moist valleys in Victoria and Tasmania, including on Flinders and King Islands.

It is common in lowland areas of Tasmania but is only found in the far south of Victoria, including in places like Port Franklin and Wilsons Promontory.

[4][3] In 2021 an 80 metre tall specimen, regarded as being the largest known remaining Tasmanian blue gum and estimated as being 500 years old, was discovered in the Huon Valley, in a coup originally slated for logging in 2023.