More red flowering gum photos

These red flowing gums (Eucalyptus ficifolia x E. ptychocarpa) are in town. This one (Corymbia ficifolia) is more spectacular, it's from Western Australia.

The leaves on these trees are enormous. They are longer than the distance between my wrist and elbow, so you can imagine how large the flowers are. The nuts are as big as matchboxes!

Here are the trees I took the photos of last week, at work. The leaves of these aren't as big as the ones in town.

Red Flowering Gum

I love these trees. I have one, but it hasn't flowered yet. It's a scrawny, mallee* looking thing. These flowers are quite large, bigger than a US$1 coin in diameter and the leaves on the tree are huge. I'll try to get a photo of the tree from a bit of a distance, there are two together I think. I tried to photograph them yesterday but it was so windy I had to hold the branch, and then after only five photos the camera battery was flat (forgot to check whether it needed charging or not).

(*Mallee is scrubby, low-growing eucalypts. My one has a scrawny trunk and is very low. The leaves are huge... I'll take a pic, but not today... I can't find it in the long grass. Some of the Australian bush is called "mallee scrub", and it's made up of many-trunked, low-growing eucalypts and interesting understory plants.)