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Bloodwood of Brosimum rubescens Trunk of Corymbia gummifera with red bleeding (Kino) Pterocarpus soyauxii bonsai stand. Bloodwood is a common name for several unrelated trees, including: Baloghia inophylla (Brush or Scrub bloodwood), Baloghia marmorata (Marbled bloodwood), Baloghia parviflora (Small-flowered bloodwood), all found in Australia
Haematoxylum campechianum (blackwood, bloodwood tree, bluewood, campeachy tree, campeachy wood, campeche logwood, campeche wood, Jamaica wood, logwood or logwood tree) [2] is a species of flowering tree in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is native to southern Mexico, and introduced to the Caribbean, northern Central America, and other localities around the world.
Another use of the bloodwood sap by Aboriginal people is to tan "kangaroo-skin waterbags". [10] People collect bush coconuts (a type of bush tucker) from the tree, which are produced by an insect in gall. [10] The roots of the bloodwood tree store water. Aboriginal peoples would dig up the roots and drain the water into a container. [14]
Corymbia polycarpa is a tree that typically grows to a height of 5–15 m (16–49 ft), sometimes 25 m (82 ft), and forms a lignotuber.It has rough, tessellated, flaky and brownish bark on the trunk and branches.
Corymbia, commonly known as bloodwoods, [3] is a genus of about one hundred species of tree that, along with Eucalyptus, Angophora and several smaller groups, are referred to as eucalypts. Until 1990, corymbias were included in the genus Eucalyptus and there is still considerable disagreement among botanists as to whether separating them is valid.
Corymbia erythrophloia, commonly known as red bloodwood, [2] variable-barked bloodwood, [3] red-barked bloodwood or gum-topped bloodwood, [4] is a species of tree that is endemic to Queensland. It has rough bark on the trunk and branches, egg-shaped or lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, creamy white flowers and urn ...
Native to Australia, the trees, which are commonly referred to as red gum or bloodwood trees (for obvious reasons), exhibit a shockingly human characteristic: they "bleed" when they're cut into ...
Corymbia ferruginea is a straggly tree that typically grows to a height of 3–12 m (9.8–39.4 ft) and forms a lignotuber.Young plants and coppice regrowth have more or less sessile, rusty green, hairy, broadly lance-shaped to egg-shaped or elliptical leaves that are 60–140 mm (2.4–5.5 in) long and 25–70 mm (0.98–2.76 in) wide.