Eucalyptus II

Right next to the Eucalyptus on the vacant land down the road whose bright red brain-shaped growth I didn't recognise but turns out to be a simple flower bud is another Eucalypt, Eucalyptus pulverulenta. 
Or to the more common folks amongst us, the Silver Leafed Mountain Gun; and to the even more common folks amongst us, the Silver Dollar Gum.
Another odd-bod from the Eucalyptus clan - starting to be a bit of a pattern forming here - this one's oddness lies in its relatively uncommon leaf shape. And colour. Of the leaf, first, but also of the stem and branches.
The leaves are essentially circular in shape, but with a small heart-like indentation where they join straight on to the stem. This shape doesn't happen a lot in Plant Land (round leaves?) for a start, but probably even less so in Eucalypt Land.
The colour is possibly an even more unusual botanical happening, being something of a light silvery-grey-green with what looks like a white-ish powder spread all over it.
The colour of the stems and branches is also a little unconventional, being a light pink tone with small darker raised spots all over, and covered with the same white powder look as the leaves.
The strangeness continues, because the already unorthodox looking leaves are always juvenile leaves. Even when the tree reaches maturity, the juvenile leaves stay on, with not one adult leaf ever making an appearance.
Yet more out of the ordinariness: the pulverulenta is a relatively rare plant, being an Australian native restricted - according to the Eucalypt experts - to two small populations. One is in the Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney; the other is in the Southern Tablelands, which - if you can believe it - is to the south of Sydney.
Not sure the experts have got all the details on the distribution areas correct, because this particular specimen popped up a little outside those two areas, about 1,000 kilometres or so south west of Sydney, as the crow flies.
But wherever you come across an example of the SLMG, rest assured it makes a very attractive and striking feature in many native floral arrangements - almost to the point of cliche.
Indeed, among practitioners in the floral industry, it's commonly known as the Florists' Silver Dollar.
Unless they got that bit wrong too.