bloodwoods

Major species in these forests include spotted gum (Corymbia citriodora), bloodwoods (C. trachyphloia, C. intermedia), white mahogany (Eucalyptus acmenoides) and ironbarks (E. siderophloia, E. crebra).

Eastern Australian temperate forests 2008

Canopy height is typically low (3 meters to 8 meters), although occasional bloodwoods emerge above the wattle layer.

Kimberly tropical savanna 2007

Different, but scarcely less sturdy, stand the bloodwoods.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

He has a scolding tongue, and if a hawk hovers over the bloodwoods he tells without hesitation of the evil presence.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

The prevailing perception may be of lush grasses mingled with the soft odour of their frail flowers; or the resin and honey of blossoming bloodwoods; or the essence from myriads of other eucalyptus leaves massaged by the winds.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

The bold white trunks of giant tea-trees glowed; the creamy blooms of bloodwoods were as flecks of snow; the tips of the fronds of coco-nut palms flickered vividly as burnished steel; the white-painted house assumed speckless purity.

My Tropic Isle 2003

Thence the sound passes on through the wattles and bloodwoods to the narrow tea-tree swamp lined with dwarf bamboos and dies in echoes in the distance.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

Consequently when with a careless flourish he whisked between two bloodwoods the sled struck one with a shock that for a moment

My Tropic Isle 2003

What she really loved to do was to wander among the bloodwoods — with Tom, of course — with next to nothing on, the next to nothing being the drawers.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

The bold white trunks of giant tea-trees glowed; the creamy blooms of bloodwoods were as flecks of snow; the tips of the fronds of coco-nut palms flickered vividly as burnished steel; the white-painted house assumed speckless purity.

My Tropic Isle 1887