Gum Tree Bark Types

Red flowering gum tree named for its scarlet red flowers.

Gum tree bark types. The blue gum is the most commonly planted eucalyptus around the world. Commonly called sweetgum sweet gum in the uk gum redgum satin walnut or a eucalyptus tree with unique peeling bark layers with whitish under layer and red shedding surface in western australia. The rainbow gum tree is the only type of eucalyptus tree that grows natively in the northern hemisphere and is the only eucalyptus tree that grows in a rainforest habitat. Close up of bark texture on a sweet gum tree a large deciduous tree.

Similar to eucalyptus obliqua the messmate stringybark. It s commonly known as sydney red gum because its sap is red. In some areas it has become invasive. Manna gum tree the bark peels off in strips.

Messmates have much smaller gum nuts and glossy green leaves. 12 species of gum trees blue gum. Shedding eucalyptus tree bark may help keep the tree healthy. Aspen tree bark is pale grey or off white with dark diamond shaped lenticels that fuse into channels as the tree ages.

In smooth bark types the bark comes off in flakes curls or long strips. List of different types of gum trees. Due to its beautiful bark it is widely planted as an ornamental tree but it is also mass cultivated for the production of pulp to make white paper. Rainbow gum tree spectacular rainbow colored trunk.

Recently dead s red stringybark. In rough bark eucalyptus the bark doesn t fall off as easily but accumulates in entwined stringy masses of the tree. A member of the stringybark family. 5 elder tree bark sambucus nigra elder tree bark is greyish brown crossed with deep corky ridges.

Angophora costata is found growing right across the sydney sandstone region. Eucalyptus corymbia and angophora are three genera within the myrtaceae family that are all known as gum trees because of the gooey sap they exude. Red cap gum tree red helmet gum. As the species name hispida indicates this tree has red bristles on the stems and new leaves.

Lemon scented gum tree its strong lemon scent repels insects. Sweetgum grows from connecticut southward throughout the east to central florida and eastern texas and is a very common commercial timber species of the south. Blue gum tree common eucalyptus tree. Sweetgum is easy to identify in both summers and in winter.