Western Australian Gum Trees

Listed by heritage council of western australia and national trust of australia western australia the separation tree.
Western australian gum trees. This is one of the more popular species for landscape use. Grafted flowering gum this is a tough and compact australian native which puts on a brilliant display of fiery red flowers throughout the summer months providing an abundance of food for nectar loving birds. Buy and sell almost anything on gumtree classifieds. The river red gum eucalyptus camaldulensis is the most widely distributed eucalypt species in australia.
The eucalyptus macrocarpa is a small gum tree unique to wa this example is in the kings park botanical garden. Scarlet flowering gum albany red flowering gum. Royal botanic gardens melbourne. A magic ecosystem within itself.
Regelia velutina handsome upright shrub 6 15 x 3 9 with greyish small leaves and terminal. Growing to 30m this cream grey trunk with splashes of red brown and pink is unmatched by any other tree and mainly grows along river courses. Its large woody fruits are almost as striking. This web page contains a selection of pictures mostly taken in november 2011 in perth western australia.
Eucalyptus camaldulensis commonly known as the river red gum is a tree that is endemic to australia. 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. River red gum eucalyptus camaldulensis. 1600 24 m high location of celebrations marking the separation of victoria from new south wales on 18 november 1850.
Regelia megacephala handsome erect shrub 8 10 with cerise purple flowers in late spring summer. Western australia is home to thousands of unique plant species evolved in isolation due to the deserts which separate this state from other habitats on the australian continent. A deservedly well known species naturally restricted to sandy coastal often swampy sites in the far south western corner of australia the red flowering gum is widely cultivated across southern australia for its fiery show of blooms which can completely hide the foliage of the tree in summer. 25 to 40 feet tall.
This tree belongs to a kind of eucalyptus known as a bloodwood.