Aussie Gum Tree Landscape By Kaye Menner

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Aussie Gum Tree Landscape By Kaye Menner

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Kaye Menner

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Two beautiful australian gum trees, standing tall before a landscape of grass, clear blue skies and many more gum trees in the distance. I captured this image from the famous Lane Cove National Park in Sydney, NSW, Australia. In the background one can see the buildings of the Chatswood skyline, a nearby city and Sydney suburb.

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[Courtesy - http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/eucalypts ]
Eucalypts, commonly known as gum trees, form an integral part of the Australian identity with the bush. From the children's song Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree through to the distinctive smell of eucalypts to iconic paintings and photographs, eucalypts are an essential part of Australian culture, featuring in art, music and literature.

[Courtesy - http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s2979988.htm ]
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.

Angophora costata is found growing right across the Sydney sandstone region. It's commonly known as Sydney Red Gum because its sap is red. It was this tree that inspired Sir Joseph Banks to call them gum trees.

With over 900 species of gum trees, it's probably not surprising that aboriginal people have used them in so many different ways over the years.

Clarence says that many older people used the gum as an adhesive, a sweet lolly, or even as a toothache remedy.

The leaves also contain a useful ingredient - eucalyptus oil - which is now used world-wide for range of applications. Clarence says that the oil from the Peppermint Gum (Eucalyptus piperita) was used by the first fleet doctors to treat the convicts and the marines.

Many gum trees are identified by the uses of their bark. For example, the wood of the ironbark tree is extremely hard and was used for making tools and weapons.

Different parts of the stringy bark tree were also to make various objects, including canoes and paddles. The inner bark was used to make string by soaking it and weaving two strands together. Clarence says the resulting string is "really strong and quite good to use."

Timber from many of the trees is used to make coolamons - which are a curved wooden tray - and are used to carry things in. Other uses for timber included musical instruments such as bilmas or clap sticks and, of course, the yidaki or didgeridoo.

Clarence says, "Whether you call them Eucalyptus, Corymbia, Angophora, Ironbark, Stringybark - it doesn't matter! They're all gum trees and they're iconic to the Australian landscape."

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