EUCALYPTS - GUM TREES

Eucalyptus - Forest Red Gum

Frequently tall with a thick trunk but also occurs with a short trunk and heavily branched crown. Very common Eucalypt along river banks of eastern Australia. A Koala food tree.

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Eucalyptus - Red mahogony

Has reddish brown, stringy bark, persisting to the smaller branches. Red mahogany is well regarded for its high quality timber, being very hard, heavy, and having dark-red heartwood.

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Eucalyptus - Grey Ironbark

A dark trunked forest tree with grey furrowed bark. When in flower, the nectar is attractive to birds and insects, and is used in honey production.

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Eucalyptus - Tallowwood

This tall tree is often found on the edge of rainforests. It has soft, fibrous, orange bark and a dense crown. Tallowwood is so named due to the greasy feel of the wood when cut, and is a known koala feed tree.

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Eucalyptus - Narrow-leaved Ironbark

An erect tree with hard deeply furrowed black persistent bark and narrowed drooping leaves. One of the important commercial timbers of Qld with hard reddish durable timber used for heavy construction. A slower growing eucalypt.

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Eucalyptus - Flooded Gum

One of the noblest of the large eucalypts. Originates from high rainfall regions of Aust. Can reach up to 60m. Smooth whitish or blue-grey bark. Clusters of white blossoms.

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Eucalyptus - Spotted Gum

Hardy and Both the foliage and the trunks are beautiful, making it an ideal choice where the space is available. Well-grown stock should grow quickly, and provide beautiful character within a few years after planting. Hardy and durable timber used for multiple purposes. See http://www.timber.net.au

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Eucalyptus - Swamp mahogony

A strong-growing, tough tree that does well in poor swampy or salty soil; also adaptable to a dry climate. The leaves are a very dark green, the bark is dark and rough, and pink flowers are produced in copious quantities.

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Lemon scented gum

A clean straight tree of graceful appearance but often sparsely canopied. The smooth bark is a pinkish grey, and the leaves have a strong lemon scented odour when crushed.

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Eucalyptus - Dunns White Gum

A tall spreading gum, native to North Eastern NSW. The bark is shed in long strips revealing a smooth white bark, but is often scaly and corky at the trunk base. Highly recommended for quick growing forestry plantations.

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Eucalyptus - Swamp bloodwood

This species has some of the largest leaves among the eucalypts. Showy flowers are borne in pendent panicles and range from white or pink, apricot or red. Large ribbed seed capsules follow.

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Eucalyptus - Lemon Ironbark

The complex essential oil is distilled from the leaves and used for flavouring and aromatherapy. The whole leaf is also used as a bushfood spice and herb-tea ingredient. It is used like a bay-leaf in savoury cooking, and is also used in confectionery and teas. It has a fruity-lemon flavour, with a rosemary-like edge. A small rough barked sclerophyll tree that grows naturally in pure stands on hills in the Palmer River region of Cape York.

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Bloodwood - Red

A fast growing tree suitable for use as a street tree and park planting. Tolerates a wide variety of soils provided adequate moisture is available in the establishment period. Flowers are quite ornamental and showy since they are produced on the outside of the canopy. Copious nectar production attracts a wide range of both invertebrate and vertebrate fauna. Seeds are eaten by cockatoos. Glider possums actively scar this tree and trunk and branches to access the sap flow for food. Older trees develop hollow bearing branches which provide breeding and roosting opportunities for a diverse range

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Eucalyptus - Plunkett mallee

Plunkett Mallee. Small slender tree with a mallee habit. Grey green adult foliage. Showy white flowers Oct-Jan. Adapts to most soils in a warm site. Protect from frost while young.

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Eucalyptus - Gympie Messmate

Gympie messmate is an important commercial wood products tree in Queensland that produces high quality, strong, extremely durable and attractive timber. Although only small volumes are harvested from native forests in Queensland, it has a well-established market, and is in demand nationally. Gympie messmate timber from native forest has been used for a range of construction, engineering, appearance products and round timbers.

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Eucalyptus - White Gum

It grows as a small to medium tree from 5 to 18 m high with a spreading crown of 5 to 15 m. The short trunk is often bent and has smooth grey to white powdery bark. Freshly-exposed new bark is pink.

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Eucalyptus - Small-fruited Grey Gum

A beautiful tall, elegant tree, 35 m or so high, with a tall, straight cylindrical trunk. Prized for the strength and durability of their timber. The bark sheds to the ground, there is no collar. Koala tree.

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Eucalyptus - Sydney Bluegum

This fast growing, elegant gum is valuable in plantation forestry. The white bark is often rough at base and smooth above. Favours hill slope locations and warm humid conditions. Natural distribution along the coast and nearby ranges of New South Wales and Queensland.

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Eucalyptus - Blackbutt

Identified by the stocking of rough bark, to about halfway up the trunk, above this is white smooth bark. Economically, it is one of Australia's most important hardwoods. Koala food tree.

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Eucalyptus - White Mahogany

Well regarded for the high quality of timber. Somewhat similar to tallowwood but not as greasy. The wood is resistant to termites.

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Eucalyptus citriodora - Lemon scented gum

Fast grower.Firewood tree. will regrow when cut,so is good continual mulch source.Dry leaves are extremely flammable so good fire kindle etc. | Rolf - Bankstown, NSW 13-Dec-2005

Eucalyptus citriodora - Lemon scented gum

New name is Corymbia citriodora | Rolf - Bankstown, NSW 19-Mar-2006

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