Plants
Gum Trees
Sighting 4653557

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Unverified 16 Mar 2025 KylieWaldon

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Not seen anything like these before. On a gum tree trunk. Borers? something else? About 20 of them but all irregular, quite hard.

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donhe wrote:
   16 Mar 2025
@KylieWaldon : when you scratched one open, what did you discover ?
KylieWaldon wrote:
   16 Mar 2025
Hi Don. I couldn't get in - they were really hard. Like plugs make out of wood.
donhe wrote:
   16 Mar 2025
Maybe they are trunk buds, used by the plant to sprout if a fire destroys the current foliage and twigs?
KylieWaldon wrote:
   16 Mar 2025
I did take a photo of the canopy. I will add it. I go past this tree a lot and I think I would have noticed these in the past, so have only appeared in the last 2 months if that helps at all. :)
donhe wrote:
   16 Mar 2025
Maybe reclassify it as a tree, and see if any of our myrtaceologists recognise it.

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  • 30 Circumference of trunk (cm)
  • 1 metre to 5 metres Plant height
  • Alive / healthy Plant health
  • one hollow in tree How many hollows in tree?
  • True Planted

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