river red gum
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[edit]Noun
[edit]river red gum (plural river red gums)
- (Australia) A red gum tree of species Eucalyptus camaldulensis (syn. E. rostrata Schltdl., nom. illeg.).
- 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 128:
- Around lunchtime we crossed a creek with river-red-gums growing in its bed.
Translations
[edit]Eucalyptus camaldulensis
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References
[edit]- Nash (1997) “Comparative flora terminology of the central Northern Territory”, in Patrick McConvell & Nicholas Evans, editors, Archaeology and Linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in Global Perspective[1], Melbourne: Oxford University Press, page 192, 199 of 187–206
- Northern Territory Herbarium (2015). FloraNT: Northern Territory Flora Online. Department of Land Resource Management. Accessed: 19 September 2022.