Yellow Gums Eucalyptus leucoxylon change more from season to season and are more colourful than all other local eucalypts. Their copious shedding of bark in summer is commonly accompanied by a dramatic colouring of trunks for months. After the rain is the best time to view these bright displays. Even now in winter their trunks can evoke abstract art.
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Yellow Gum bark, Mia Mia Track. Photo by Frances Cincotta, June 2018
The striking smooth cream bark can now been seen more commonly across the bush.
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Yellow Gum, Walmer South Nature Conservation Reserve. Photo by Bronwyn Silver, June 2018