RED RIVER GUM THE EUCALYPTUS THAT LIVES UP TO ITS NAME

摘要

Red river gum's status and high timber value in the wider world is more than matched within its native Australian range by its critically important environmental and ecological status and value, in addition to yielding huge timber and firewood resources.The name, red river gum, aptly describes all in one go a natural distribution along inland water courses and the deep red wood and timber. Elsewhere in the world such as Argentina, where the tree is grown as an exotic plantation tree, red river gum has been given some rather confusing names such as Patagonian cherry and Andean cherry, in recognition of the intense red colour of the wood.