Irregular flowering July-September and November-December.
The narrow-leaved crown is strongly lemon-scented in northern populations.
Has become weedy in various locations where it has spread from plantings.
Attracts Grey-headed Flying Fox, Yellow-bellied Glider, Squirrel Glider, Scaly Breasted and Little Lorikeets, Noisy Friarbird, Brown and White-cheeked Honeyeaters, Koalas, Brushtail Possums, Greater Gliders, Honey Bees, Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos and Pale-Headed Rosellas.
C. citriodora subsp. variegata is more or less the same, just lacking the lemon-scent in foliage.
Botanists may find the following short key from EUCLID Eucalypts of Australia useful:
1. Foliage with strong lemon-scent, bark mostly not mottled: C. citriodora subsp. citriodora
1a. Foliage not lemon-scented, bark mottled
2. Seedling/juvenile leaves still with peltate leaf-bases at node 10: C. citriodora subsp. variegata
2a. Seedling/juvenile leaves mostly lacking peltate leaf-bases by node 9: C. maculata

Photo: Robert Whyte
Bark

Photo: Robert Whyte
Closeup of bark

Photo: Robert Whyte