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Burls are woody growths that erupt from trees and are used by woodworkers and woodturners to create beautiful furniture and bowls.
The term is widely used for trees with this across southern Australia, [5] across the states of Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria. [1] The term is also applied to other eucalypts with a similar growth habit, [ 2 ] in particular those in the closely related genera Corymbia and Angophora .
Eucalyptus globulus is a tree that typically grows to a height of 45 m (148 ft) but may sometimes only be a stunted shrub, or alternatively under ideal conditions can grow as tall as 90–100 m (300–330 ft), and forms a lignotuber. The bark is usually smooth, white to cream-coloured but there are sometimes slabs of persistent, unshed bark at ...
According to Plants of the World Online, there are more 715 species of plants in the genus Eucalyptus and most are native to Australia; a very small number are found in adjacent areas of New Guinea and Indonesia. [22] One species, Eucalyptus deglupta, ranges as far north as the Philippines. Of the 15 species found outside Australia, just nine ...
Eucalyptus microtheca, with many common names including desert box, coolibah, callaille, targoon, yathoo [2] or coolabah, is a species of tree that is endemic to northern Australia. It has rough, flaky or fibrous bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and spherical to conical fruit.
Eucalyptus marginata, commonly known as jarrah, [5] djarraly in Noongar language [6] and historically as Swan River mahogany, [7] is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tree with rough, fibrous bark, leaves with a distinct midvein, white flowers and relatively large, more or ...
Eucalyptus chlorophylla is a tree that typically grows to a height of 18 m (59 ft) or a mallee to 6 m (20 ft) with hard, rough, grey-brown to bleached grey bark, and that forms a lignotuber. The leaves on young plants and on coppice regrowth are broadly lance-shaped to egg-shaped, 40–90 mm (1.6–3.5 in) long, 14–32 mm (0.55–1.26 in) wide ...
Eucalyptus albopurpurea is a mallee that grows to a height of 5 m (20 ft) or sometimes a tree 5–18 m (20–60 ft) high and has a lignotuber.It has rough, loose, fibrous bark on the lower part of the trunk and smooth coppery to pinkish grey bark that is shed in strips higher up.