Northern Territory Photographs

Eucalypt Information

Main varieties of Eucalypts growing up in the Top End bush are Stringy Barks and Woolly Butts, and although not a Eucalypt, Ironwood trees are plentiful too. Paperbarks in and around wet areas are common as well.
Most of these trees flower from the middle of the Dry Season to the end of the Dry and provide a rich source of nectar for the many varieties of nectar eating birds.

Woolly Butt
(Eucalyptus Miniata)
Family: Myrtaceae

Woolly Butt tree One of the most plentiful of Eucalypts in the woodlands of the Top End, flowering from Jun to early Sep. Produces large clusters of striking orange flowers much loved by the Red-Collared Lorikeets

String Bark
(Eucalyptus Tetrodonta)
Family: Myrtaceae

Stringy Bark tree The other of the two main varieties of Eucalypt in this area. Tall tree growing to in excess of 30 metres
There may be some doubt as to whether the flowers shown here are actually from a Stringy Bark tree, they were photographed from a slender sapling, but I can't identify positively what else they could be. So in the absence of any further positive id, I'm going to assume it's a Stringy

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