Botanical Buzz | Eucalypt at the end of the rainbow. New home among the gum trees?

By Ron Watson
October 6 2017 - 9:30pm
AMAZING: The rainbow gum grows, north of the equator, in the Philippines, New Guinea, and Indonesia.  Photo: CONTRIBUTED
AMAZING: The rainbow gum grows, north of the equator, in the Philippines, New Guinea, and Indonesia. Photo: CONTRIBUTED

Expatriate Aussies are said to have bouts of chronic homesickness on sight of a Eucalypt in a foreign land. Such a fond emotion. However many Aussies on their home turf are quick to denigrate the hapless Gum Tree as a nuisance year-round leaf shedder with the propensity to drop a heavy limb our way for added good measure.

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