blue-gum

My mother bottled, jammed and dried a great variety, and to that sweet store, my dad added comb honey extracted from the hives lodged under the stand of blue-gum eucalyptus trees.

Family life 2011

My mother bottled, jammed and dried a great variety, and to that sweet store, my dad added comb honey extracted from the hives lodged under the stand of blue-gum eucalyptus trees.

Family life 2011

The man himself is making a fire under a giant blue-gum.

Australia's Own School of Landscape Painting II Hels 2009

The man himself is making a fire under a giant blue-gum.

Archive 2009-01-01 Hels 2009

So far, he has built three windmills in his yard here, using blue-gum trees and bicycle parts.

A Young Tinkerer 2007

The contraption causing all the fuss is a tower made from lashed-together blue-gum tree trunks.

A Young Tinkerer 2007

In this strip, which was filled with greenery, little sun fell: two thick fir trees and a monstrous blue-gum stood there; high bushes screened the fence; jessamine climbed the wall of the house and encircled the bedroom windows; and on the damp and shady ground only violets grew.

The Getting of Wisdom 2003

We halted on a slope about three-quarters of a mile outside the town, which in its essential features is remarkably like Krugersdorp, the streets being lined with tall blue-gum trees, and the plan of course rectangular, with the usual market square in the centre.

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

For instance, the first thing that caught my eye was the gigantic trunk of an Australian blue-gum tree, which had attained to a girth and height not often seen in its own land.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

The smell of blue-gum fires, of the oil that Lady Charles burnt in the drawing-room, and of cabbage-tree bloom would come out through the open door to greet her.

Death of a Peer Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1940