Eucalyptus cloeziana is native to Queensland (Australia). It has been planted in Nigeria, Congo, DR Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar and South Africa. Eucalyptus cloeziana is grown up to 2350 m altitude, in areas with a mean annual temperature of 16 to 27ºC, a mean maximum temperature of the warmest month of 27 to 36º C, a mean minimum temperature of the coldest month of 6 to17ºC and an average annual rainfall of 700 to 2000 mm, with a dry season of up to 5 months. The tree is suitable for humid highland conditions, but it is sensitive to frost. It prefers well-drained, neutral to acidic, medium-textured soils.

Eucalyptus cloeziana is an evergreen tree that can grow up to 55 meters tall. The bole can be up to 150cm in diameter, exceptionally to 300cm.

BARK: surface brown, grey or grey-yellow, longitudinally fissured or with thick irregular scales; branchlets smooth.

LEAVES: alternate, simple and entire, stipules absent, petiole 1–1.5 cm long, flattened, blade lanceolate, 8–13 cm × 1–3 cm, acuminate at apex, discolorous, pinnately veined.

FLOWERS: Inflorescence an axillary umbel-like dichasium, 4–7-flowered, often several together in a large panicle, peduncle rounded or angular, 5–10 mm long, bisexual, regular, pedicel 1–4 mm long, flower buds club-shaped to globular ovoid, divided into a hemispherical hypanthium (lower part) and a hemispherical or conical operculum (upper part) and shed at anthesis, stamens numerous, ovary inferior, 3–4-celled.

FRUIT: hemispherical or globular capsule enclosed in a woody hypanthium, opening with 3–4 level or exserted valves, many-seeded. Seeds cube-shaped or elongated, yellow-brown.

The leaves yield up to 1.9% essential oil, of which 2 forms have been distinguished: the pinene-rich form and the tasmanone-rich form.

The wood produces very good poles, having few equals as telephone or transmission poles, due to their form, strength and durability.

The wood is also used for construction, cladding, railway sleepers, bridge planking, piers, posts and mine props, and is suitable for flooring, joinery, ship building, vehicle bodies, handles, ladders, sporting goods, agricultural implements and turnery.

The wood is used for fuel and it can be made into charcoal of good quality.

Agroforestry: flowers provide bee forage.