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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.
Corymbia gummifera is a tree that typically grows to a height of 20–35 m (66–115 ft), rarely a mallee, and forms a lignotuber.Young plants and coppice regrowth have leaves that are paler on the lower surface, egg-shaped to lance-shaped, 90–165 mm (3.5–6.5 in) long and 30–52 mm (1.2–2.0 in) wide, and petiolate.
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.
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 ...
Bloodwood bleeding Bloodwood tree in Karijini National Park Corymbia terminalis foliage and buds. Corymbia terminalis, also known as tjuta, joolta, bloodwood, desert bloodwood, plains bloodwood, northern bloodwood, western bloodwood or inland bloodwood, [2] [3] is a species of small to medium-sized tree, rarely a mallee that is endemic to Australia.
Corymbia eximia, commonly known as yellow bloodwood, is a bloodwood native to New South Wales. It occurs around the Sydney Basin often in high rainfall areas on shallow sandstone soils on plateaux or escarpments, in fire prone areas. Growing as a gnarled tree to 20 m (66 ft), it is recognisable by its distinctive yellow-brown tessellated bark.
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]