A narrow-leaved form, even has the same shothole problem prevalent among 'Otto Luyken' here.

Saintpfla, sorry for the delayed response. I lost track of this thread and ran acrossed it looking for something else. I am not good at looking at pics for id's. To me it doesn't look the same but I could be wrong. On the swamp bay, if you break the leaf apart, it smells alot like bay leaf. The new leaves are soft and fuzzy and the old leaves are not. The new leaves on your pic look the same as the older ones. The flower is so very small it is hard to tell when it is open and the flower is greenish. I don't remember a smell to the flower.

You might be right Peter - however, I wanted to ID a wattle that grows widely in the Melbourne area and I looked on the ANBG website. After making a number of enquiries, I found out it was Acacia iteaphylla. The ANBG shows this species having a range north of Adelaide in SA. What the site failed to mention is that it has become a weed species in Victoria. So I can't be sure your tree is E cinerea, but try to get confirmation from a local expert. Cheers - GW Here is a link that might be useful: ANBG

Got it! Octopus/Umbrella Tree!!