peppermint tree

English edit

peppermint tree (plural peppermint trees)

(chiefly Australia) Any of several species of eucalypt which yield an essential oil that smells of peppermint, especially a member of the stringybark group.
- 2007, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, published 2007, page 95:
  Maybe even a peppermint tree, broad and moppish and spicy like the ones lining Eliza's street.
(chiefly Australia) A tree of the family Myrtaceae bearing leaves that smell of peppermint, especially willow myrtle, Agonis flexuosa, often colloquially called a peppy.