Eucalyptus camaldulensis, River Red

[Damian Bee]

Here is one of my favorite trees (one of). It lives in central Vic next to a creek. I happened to be working there and was very impressed by its size and the buttressing and scarring on the trunk. Believe it or not, you can crawl inside and I think up to 6 adults could sit in there.

[Marc]

Damian, this is the exact type of picture and specimen in real life that makes me want to do bonsai. Seeing such a magnificent beauty and hitting it with a ray gun to shrink it into a pot....

[Psymo]

that is ucking amzing. What an Incredible living tree.

[FlyBri]

Gday Damian!

Awesome tree (or at least the parts I can see)! Makes me wanna dig through my photos for some of the more inspirational Eucs I've seen...

Thanks for sharing.

Fly.

[Damian Bee]

Fli Bri, not far from you is Victoria's second oldest River Red Gum, it is in Mill Park I am pretty sure, stuck in the middle of a suburban development but it is not as pleasing to look at in my opnion

[FlyBri]

Fli Bri, not far from you is Victoria's second oldest River Red Gum, it is in Mill Park I am pretty sure, stuck in the middle of a suburban development but it is not as pleasing to look at in my opnion

The River Reds in Mill Park are awesome, but with all the new development out there, I don't know how long they'll survive... It seems almost certain to me that the urban sprawl will mean that when those ancient trees finally give in, there will be no younger trees to take their place. I might see about posting up photos of some notable ones soon.

Thanks again.

Fly.

[Bretts]

Thats a good piont Fly maybe it is worth suggesting planting some new ones while the old ones are still there.

[Damian Bee]

I have a great one somewhere of a red out at a newish development out at South Morang, if I can find it i will post it as it has very nice trunk