Tasmanian Snow Gum Tree Wood
Steely clouds are tearing at the dolerite peaks of tasmania s cradle mountain lake st clair national park portents of rain but there is another reason for haste.
Tasmanian snow gum tree wood. In summer abundant clusters of creamy white flowers are borne amongst the foliage. Adaptable species great for shelter or a highly ornamental tree on cold sites. This tuber can produce new branches as needed. A pencil pine can live a thousand years but the ancient tree bears its seed cones only sporadically.
Dry fire wood ready to burn and ready to deliver limited loads available truck load as shown approx 5m. The wood is primarily used for. Imagine peeling an onion where the top couple of layers are different colours but the rest of the onion is just normal. Fire wood fire wood firewood heater dry car truck garden shed boat ute.
The tasmanian swow gum is botanically called eucalyptus coccifera. The tree is a deciduous tree it will be up to 30 m 99 ft high. A tree with this structure is called a mallee. The peppermint scented foliage is heart shaped when juvenile lance shaped blue green when adult.
This fast growing tree is widely cultivated as a plantation species within australia and other subtropical climates. There are four subspecies each with a different distribution occurring in new south wales victoria and tasmania. They don t run through the wood. Call or txt preferred.
Honey is made by bees that visit the trees and many of the species have wood. No pine or plantation. You might be able to wrap something in the bark to get the streaks but there s no point really making something out of the wood. Utility lumber pallets paper pulpwood fenceposts flooring veneer and turned objects.
The cool streaks are just very thin layered strips of bark. Eucalyptus coccifera commonly known as the tasmanian snow gum is a small to medium sized tree endemic to tasmania. Good load of mixed wood gum peppermint some iron bark. It has mostly smooth bark juvenile leaves that are whitish and waxy on the lower surface glossy green lance shaped adult leaves glaucous ribbed flower buds arranged singly or in groups of three or seven in leaf axils white flowers and woody fruit.
This eucalyptus tolerates exposed conditions and has a. Plantation grown lumber tends to be lighter and softer with forest grown blue gum being harder and more dense. This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices or on the iucn red list of threatened species. Some gum trees form a lignotuber underground root tuber with buds often as a way to recover from fires.
The leaves are oblong and the flowers are. Delivery to other locations available for delivery fee. It has smooth grey and cream coloured bark elliptic to lance shaped adult leaves flower buds in groups of between three and nine usually white flowers and conical hemispherical or cup shaped fruit. It is borne on magnificent scarlet red stems.
465 inc gst delivered within 40km of launceston. Oil from the gum tree leaves is used in a variety of medications. Eucalyptus coccifera tasmanian snow gum is a spreading evergreen tree boasting beautiful twisted branches and striking smooth mottled bark a lovely mix of light gray to creamy white often tinged with pink. Decorative white and grey bark reveals yellow or pink bark underneath creating a rainbow like striped pattern.
Green to blue grey foliage is rounded when young but longer when mature. Creamy white flowers from january february.