river red gum

English
river red gum

Noun

river red gum (plural river red gums)

  1. (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.

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References
  • Nash (1997) “Comparative flora terminology of the central Northern Territory”, in Patrick McConvell & Nicholas Evans, editors, Archaeology and Linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in Global Perspective‎, 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.
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