White gum

Last updated April 29, 2019

White gum is a common name of a great many Eucalyptus species, all of which have smooth white bark.

Eucalyptus is a genus of over seven hundred species of flowering trees, shrubs or mallees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae commonly known as eucalypts. Plants in the genus Eucalyptus have bark that is smooth, fibrous or stringy, leaves with oil glands, and sepals and petals that are fused to form a "cap" or operculum over the stamens. The fruit is a woody capsule commonly referred to as a "gumnut". Australia is covered by 92,000,000 hectares of eucalypt forest, comprising three quarters of the area covered by native forest.

Species that have "White gum" as a common name include:

Corymbia aparrerinja (also known as ghost gum, desert white gum and Dallachy's Gum)
Eucalyptus alba (also known as Timor white gum)
Eucalyptus argophloia (also known as Chinchilla white gum, Queensland western white gum, Queensland white gum, and western white gum)
Eucalyptus benthamii (Camden white gum, Dorrigo white gum)
Eucalyptus bigalerita (Adelaide River white gum)
Eucalyptus brevifolia (northern white gum, snappy white gum)
Eucalyptus cupularis (Halls Creek white gum)
Eucalyptus dalrympleana (also known as mountain white gum)
Eucalyptus delegatensis (mountain white gum)
Eucalyptus dorrigoensis (Dorrigo white gum)
Eucalyptus dunnii (also known as Dunns white gum)
Eucalyptus elata (river white gum)
Eucalyptus haemastoma
Eucalyptus houseana (Kimberley white gum, tropical white gum)
Eucalyptus lanepoolei (salmon white gum)
Eucalyptus leucophloia (snappy white gum)
Eucalyptus lindleyana (river white gum)
Eucalyptus micrantha
Eucalyptus mooreana (mountain white gum)
Eucalyptus ovata
Eucalyptus papuana (also known as drooping white gum, Molloy white gum)
Eucalyptus platyphylla
Eucalyptus racemosa
Eucalyptus rossii
Eucalyptus rubida
Eucalyptus scoparia (Wallangarra white gum)
Eucalyptus signata (also known as peppermint-leaved white gum)
Eucalyptus viminalis
Eucalyptus wandoo (also known as wandoo)

Corymbia aparrerinja commonly known as ghost gum, is an evergreen tree that is native to Central Australia.

Eucalyptus alba, commonly known as white gum, khaki gum or poplar gum, is a species of tree that is native to Australia, Timor, and New Guinea. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and conical to hemispherical fruits.

Eucalyptus argophloia, commonly known as the Queensland western white gum, Queensland white gum, Scrub gum, Lapunyah, Burncluith gum or Chinchilla white gum is a tree that is endemic to a small area of Queensland. It has smooth white bark ageing to other colours, narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, more or less spherical flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and small, hemispherical to cup-shaped fruit.

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