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Trees Of Western Australia - Gimlets And Pear Fruited Mallee, C A. Gardner
Trees Of Western Australia - Gimlets And Pear Fruited Mallee, C A. Gardner
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3
Next to the salmon gum, the gimlet tree is perhaps the best-known of the trees of the Eastern Agricultural Districts and the Eastern Goldfields. A thin reddish brown bark, and a fluted or spirally-twisted trunk (especially in the young trees), distinguish at a- glance the gimlet trees or fluted gums from all other Eucalyptus trees. This bark has a thin outer layer which when removed reveals a sappy pale green, inner bark, and sometimes this inner green bark is exposed when the trees shed their reddish-brown outer bark towards the end of summer.