Hardiness zones:
Sunset 8-24
USDA 9-11 (arid and semi arid regions best)

Landscape Use: Small to medium sized, open canopied tree, casts a light shade, a great residential or patio tree, background, screen

Form & Character: Sleek (smooth bronzy brown trunk) and sassy - a refined evergreen small tree

Growth Habit: Moderate and open to 20 to 30' with somewhat less than equal spread, often multi-trunk. Trunk always smooth, Grayish cinnamon brown in color shedding a single layer in late spring to become bronze metallic in color.

Foliage/texture: Small, linear leaves to 3" long, gray green sometimes tinged with red when young. Like many eucalypts, the trunk of narrow-leaf gimlet sheds a single layer like a snake sheds it skin, very fine texture

Flowers & fruits: Small golden cream flowers in terminal clusters; fruit are very small capsules, les than 1" wide.

Seasonal color: Very, very subtle floral display in spring and fall. New foliage is reddish.

Temperature: Tolerant, hardy to 15 to 20^oF

Light: Full sun

Soil: Tolerant

Watering: Moderately drought tolerant. Excessive water encourages growth of weak wood.

Pruning: Elevate canopy base to expose trunk character. Use thinning cuts when the tree is young to establish a strong scaffold branch system.

Propagation: Seed

Disease and pests: Narrow-leaf gimlet is susceptible to bacterial wet wood that is typically spread through use of unsterilized pruning equipment.

Additional comments: Once established, narrow-leaf gimlet is potentially one of the best small eucalyptus for Phoenix residential landscapes. Be sure to screen nursery stock for upright forms with a straight and sturdy trunk and smaller leaves. Otherwise, be sure to train young trees rigorously to establish a strong and well balanced scaffold branch system. If not trained, this small tree will show 'malle' (shrub) characteristics which may be sufficient when used as a very large background screening plant. The wood of narrow leaf gimlet is not as dense as other eucalyptus.

Check out this really cool burl growing on a large specimen in north central Phoenix.