Eucalyptus rosacea

Eucalyptus rosacea is a species of mallee that is endemic to Western Australia. It has smooth, greyish bark, linear to narrow oblong adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, pink, red or cream-coloured flowers and flattened hemispherical to almost saucer-shaped fruit.
Description.
"Eucalyptus rosacea" is a mallee that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth greyish bark that is shed in ribbons to reveal pinkish or yellowish new bark. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull, greyish, linear leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same shade of dull greyish to bluish green on both sides, linear to narrow oblong, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are oval, long and wide with a tapered, horn-like operculum long. Flowering occurs from November to February and the flowers range in colour from white through pink to deep red. The fruit is a woody, flattened hemispherical to almost saucer-shaped capsule long and wide with the valves near rim level or protruding.
Taxonomy and naming.
"Eucalyptus rosacea" was first formally described in 1992 by Lawrie Johnson and Ken Hill in the journal "Telopea" from material collected near Queen Victoria Spring in 1986. The specific epithet ("rosacea") is from the Latin word "rosaceus", meaning "like the flower of a single rose", referring to the frequently pink colour of the flowers and bark.
Distribution and habitat.
This mallee grows in low, open mallee shrubland in yellow or red sandy soils east of Laverton and Queen Victoria Spring to the edge of the Great Victoria Desert.
Conservation status.
This eucalypt is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.