Nature Notes | Don’t be strung along by tricky eucalypts

By Roger Thomas
July 19 2018 - 4:13pm
DISTINCTIVE: The telltale nuts and leaves of brown stringybark, a common site in the new Woowookarung Regional Park at Canadian.
DISTINCTIVE: The telltale nuts and leaves of brown stringybark, a common site in the new Woowookarung Regional Park at Canadian.

The number of people who know their local eucalypts is rather limited, and this has been the case since Australia was first settled. While some can name a stringybark or a red gum or a box, the proper names of the different species are known by relatively few.

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