Australian Red Gum Tree

It has smooth white or cream coloured bark lance shaped or curved adult leaves flower buds in groups of seven or nine white flowers and hemispherical fruit with the valves extending beyond the rim.
Australian red gum tree. Red ironbark eucalyptus sideroxylon one of about 40 ironbark species so named for their hard deeply furrowed bark this woodland tree also known as mugga is an important honey and pollen plant for nsw beekeepers. Angophora costata is found growing right across the sydney sandstone region. Eucalyptus camaldulensis commonly known as the river red gum is a tree that is endemic to australia.
The honey is gathered by bees from hives placed by apiarists in red ironbark woodlands. It s commonly known as sydney red gum because its sap is red. Use as small specimen residential shade tree.
It was first published in 1996 as a cd rom product with a later edition made available online in 2011. It lines the murray river for most of its length. Quick growing with compact habit growing to 25 high and 12 wide lush shiny long green leaves full dense foliage.
Rarely you will see a river red not near water of some form. A river red gum specimen in the australian national herbarium. The updated 2020 version of euclid was launched on national eucalypt day 23 march 2020.
It is abundantly grown near the inland watercourses. The maximum growth of this tree is up to 148 ft 45 meters. The river red gum eucalyptus camaldulensis is the most widely distributed eucalyptus species in australia growing along watercourses throughout the country.
The river red gum is the most widespread member of all of the eucalyptus trees and is also the most common tree found along australian waterways. It covers three genera. Angophora corymbia and eucalyptus.