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	Eucalyptus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of trees (rarely shrubs), the members of which dominate the tree flora of Australia.
		The Coolibah tree of Waltzing Matilda is a eucalyptus, E.
		Gum trees are also very accomplished at scavenging water at the expense of other plants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gum_tree (1268 words)

	King's American Dispensatory, 1898: Acacia (U. S. P.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The gum flows naturally from the bark of the trees, in the form of a thick and rather frothy liquid, and speedily concretes in the sun into tears; sometimes the discharge is promoted by wounding the trunk and branches.
		The gum is chiefly composed of the calcium arabate.
		This tree exudes from the stems and branches during the summer months masses as large as pigeon eggs, of a clear amber-colored gum, having a pleasant taste, and which is eaten by the aborigines, and commonly employed by the bushmen for diarrhoea.
	www.ibiblio.org /herbmed/eclectic/kings/acacia.html (2195 words)

	Black Gum Trees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The fl gum tree (Nyssa sylvatica) is a hardwood in the tupelo family which may grow up to 75-80 feet tall.
		As the tree ages, the bark develops deep irregular ridges and diamond shaped plates that resemble the scales of an alligator.
		In fl gum swamps, as in Atlantic white cedar swamps, a shrub layer, a herbivorous layer and a sphagnum moss "carpet" are found, and trees grow on "hummocks" comprised of compressed organic matter, or peat.
	www.mv.com /ipusers/env/bgum.html (329 words)

	Acacia senegal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gum arabic is used in the food industry as a flavor fixative and emulsifier, to prevent crystallization f sugar in confections, as a stabilizer in frozen dairy products, for its viscosity and adhesive properties in bakery products, and as a foam stabilizer and clouding agent in beer.
		The foliage and pods are browsed by sheep, goats, camels, impala, and giraffe.
		Wild trees are harvested during the dry season for gum exuded from cracks in the bark.
	www.winrock.org /forestry/factpub/FACTSH/A_senegal.html (1352 words)

	botanical.com - A Modern Herbal \| Acacia (Gum) - Herb Profile and Information
		Gum Acacia for medicinal purposes should be in roundish 'tears' of various sizes, colourless or pale yellow, or broken into angular fragments with a glass-like, sometimes iridescent fracture, often opaque from numerous fissures, but transparent and nearly colourless in thin pieces; taste insipid, mucilaginous; nearly inodorous.
		Gums of a yellow or brown colour usually contain tannin, and these, together with such as are incompletely soluble in water and which yield ropy or glairy solutions, should not be used for medicinal purposes.
		Gum Acacia is an ingredient of the official Pilula Ferri, Pulvis Amygdalae compositus, Pulvis Tragacanthae compositus, all the official Trochisci, and various syrups, pastes and pastilles or jujubes.
	www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/a/acaci006.html (1612 words)

	NYS Horticulture Study Guide For Youth
		Sweet gum is a large, deciduous tree with alternate buds and leaves.
		The fruit of the sweet gum tree is a spiny, many-seeded capsule about 1 inch in diameter.
		Sweet gum trees are used as ornamentals, shade, a lawn tree, or a street tree.
	www.hort.cornell.edu /4hplants/Ornamentals/SweetGum.html (146 words)

	NYSite West Side - Sweet Gum Tree
		DESCRIPTION: The sweet gum is a large, native, aromatic tree becoming 60 to 120 feet in height, with a trunk from 2 to 4 feet in diameter.
		There are two sweet gum trees just outside the fence on the northern border of the ball field at the Boat Basin.
		Hardened clumps of this gum are chewed by some people, as it was chewed by Native Americans and the early pioneers.
	www.nysite.com /nature/flora/sweetgum.htm (795 words)

	Gum Tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gum Tree (YN-13) was launched 20 March 1941 by the Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, W. Va.; commissioned 16 September 1941, Algiers, La., Lt. George H. Burrows in command.
		Casco Bay, off Portland, Maine, was Gum Tree's home port for the remainder of the war as she tended harbor defenses there.
		Gum Tree decommissioned there 20 June 1946 and was struck from the Navy List 7 February 1947.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/g9/gum_tree.htm (189 words)

	Tupelo Gum - Tree Identification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The bases of Tupelo Gum trees are swollen or flared outward but with out flutes like a cypress tree.
		Tupelo Gum grows in swamps and floodplains in the south, where the soils are at least periodically flooded.
		Tupelo gum bark is dark brown or dark gray thin and scaly.
	www.thejump.net /hunting/plant-id/tupelo-gum.htm (284 words)

	Re: Up a gum tree
		The origin is suggested that the saying may be an allusion to the gum tree being a refuge for the opossum, an animal which feigns death by lying still and is therefore apparently stuck up the tree.
		My understanding matches James's - to be "up a gum tree" means having no viable courses of action left, to be stumped or, to use a similar expression "to be up the creek without a paddle".
		It may be that the "gum" part was added later as an intensifier to the image because being up a tree would be bad enough, but being up a gum tree, with its gluey sap further hindering movement would be even worse.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/21/messages/836.html (420 words)

	i:\apps\webdata\internet\councilagendas\i12-1334.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		associated with the Desert Gum tree, a lack of availability of large eucalyptus trees in general, and the desire to maintain a type of eucalyptus tree in the treescape of Marine Avenue.
		Desert Gum (Eucalyptus rudis) to the Lemon Gum Tree (Eucalyptus citriodora).
		Gum as it is a very desirable tree and would be an improvement to the business area.
	www.city.newport-beach.ca.us /CouncilAgendas/1999/i12-1334.html (729 words)

	The Eucalyptus of California: Section 1
		These big- hearted men felled the trees (eucalyptus), pit-sawed them by hand power into planks, beams, keels, and frames, to shape their vessels which were to brave the ocean storms and the dangers of uncharted coasts.
		Stratton, owner of the Gum Tree Nurseries in Hayward, W.A.T. Stratton, a nurseryman in Petaluma, and Major Locke of Pasadena were the biggest producers and distributors of eucalyptus in the 1870's.
		It disallowed the cutting of trees on private land or public streets which seems extreme, but it was needed to stress the importance of trees to the state.
	wwwlibrary.csustan.edu /bsantos/section1.htm (10220 words)

	Tree: Sweet Gum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The flowers are of two kinds on the same tree, unfolding with the leaves.
		The reddish brown heartwood, which suggests the name red gum, is not present to any appreciable extent in logs under 16 inches in diameter.
		It frequently hangs on the tree by its long swinging stem late into the winter.
	www.dof.virginia.gov /mgt/trees/gum-sweet.shtml (293 words)

	The Gardener's Forum: Sick Liquid Amber (Sweet Gum) Tree
		I have one tree that is showing the same symptoms (bending at the top, as well as, a few limbs that are bending and the whole tree is not growing) as yours for some reason this year for the first time.
		Mechanical support for trees may be necessary when the tree is tall, slow to recover, heavily foliaged, or planted in a sandy site.
		Any support provided to a tree should be removed as soon as the tree can stand alone, usually after the first growing season.
	www.thegardenhelper.com /ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/34/526.html (673 words)

	Gum Tree Mortgage - Mortgage Loans for the State of Mississippi!
		All Gum Tree Mortgage professionals undergo a minimum of 12 hours of continuing education each calendar year and are licensed by the State of Mississippi and Tennessee.
		McNeal is one of the two Principal owners of Gum Tree Mortgage and been involved in the Mortgage Industry for several years.
		Shirley is one of the two Principal owners of Gum Tree Mortgage and been involved in the Mortgage Industry, based in Tupelo, for several years.
	www.gumtreemortgage.com /officers.aspx (435 words)

	Invasion Biology Introduced Species Summary Project - Columbia University
		The Tasmanian Blue Gum tree is part of a larger group of evergreen trees native to Tasmania and Australia collectively called Eucalyptus that can grow up to 400 feet tall in their native habitat.
		It is restricted to the southeast coast and small areas of the west coast of Tasmania, the islands to the north of Tasmania in the Bass Straight, and to southern Victoria in Cape Otaway and Wilson’s Promontory in Australia.
		In California, the tree is able to withstand the long dry periods because of the frequent fog.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/cerc/danoff-burg/invasion_bio/inv_spp_summ/Eucalyptus_globulus.html (1672 words)

	gum tree on Encyclopedia.com
		The red gum lerp psyllid has infested thousands of eucalyptus trees in two lake forest communities, known for their woodsy feel, driving some homeowners to cutting the infested and dead trees down the
		The red gum lerp psyllid, which forms a whitish shell to protects its larvae, is one of the pests devastating eucalyptus trees in two Lake Forest developments in Yorba Linda, California, and trees in
		The red gum lerp psyllid, which forms a whitish shell to protects its larvae, is one of the pests devastating eucalyptus trees in two Lake Forest developments known for their woodsy feel.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/g1/gumtree.asp (628 words)

	Gum Tree Shield Bugs I - Poecilometis sp. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gum Tree Shield Bugs are also known as Eucalypt Shield Bugs.
		Gum Tree Shield Bug nymphs are fl and white in colour.
		As the young nymph, they usually hide under loose bark of living gum tree, where they suck up the juice of the tree.
	www.geocities.com /brisbane_bugs/GumTreeBug.htm (287 words)

	Sweet Gums Add Great Fall Color (11-22-1999)
		I confess to thinking the sweet gum is one of the prettiest and easiest to grow trees for the urban landscape.
		The sweet gum is native to the southeastern United States, and it is should be perfectly obvious that they like our climate.
		The tree grows as fast as three feet per year, is easy to grow and considered a survivor.
	msucares.com /news/print/sgnews/sg99/sg991122.htm (580 words)

	Gum tree (without fruit) ID - UBC Botanical Garden Forums
		Can you help identify the tree in my yard that appears to be a gum tree (as it has the large distinctive star-shaped leaves) but does not have the fruit that seems to be associated with this tree.
		I'm not complaining (since from what I've read gum trees are a messy bunch), just wondering if what I have is really a gum tree or not.
		liquidambar styraciflua is aka the gum tree or american sweet gum.
	www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org /forums/showthread.php?t=7778 (507 words)

	Gum Tree Mortgage - Mortgage Loans for the State of Mississippi!
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		Gum Tree Mortgage, a Mississippi and Tennessee Licensed Mortgage Company, can assist clients from all credit grades and secures mortgage loans across the entire state of Mississippi and Tennessee.
	www.gumtreemortgage.com (182 words)

	: : Welcome to Tourist Parks : : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The tree was the first Australian home of 27 year old Freiderich Herbig who was of German origin and arrived in South Australia from Gruenberg, Silesia, Prussia in 1855.
		He leased 32ha of farmland on which stood the famous gum tree and worked it during his free time, and in 1867 he purchased the property.
		The tree was later used as an out-station by either Friedrich or Caroline to keep straying cattle from their crops at night.
	www.touristparks.com /article/auherbig (322 words)

	Liquidambar styraciflua: Sweet Gum Tree Seeds
		Zone 6-8 : Grows to over 100 ft. A medium-sized to large deciduous hardwood tree that is also useful as an ornamental planting due to its brilliant red Fall foliage.
		When grown to maturity out in the open the habit of the Sweet Gum tree is beautifully symmetrical and exhibits a cone-shaped crown that becomes more rounded with age - it can grow to be a giant.
		A medium-sized to large deciduous hardwood tree that is also useful as an ornamental planting due to its brilliant red Fall foliage.
	www.treehelp.com /shopping/product-detail.asp?Product_ID=2514 (346 words)

	Vance Publishing's W&WP magazine - Wood of the Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Trees range in height from 50 to 130 feet, averaging 80 feet in the United States (trees grow taller in the wild).
		Favored as ornamental trees, tupelos are native to eastern North America, but are popular around the world in temperate climates, primarily for the leaves’ exceptional fall color — mostly red and some golden.
		Tupelo is also the name for the world-famous honey that is produced from the tupelo gum tree, primarily Nyssa ogeechee, which grow along the Apalachicola, Choctahatchee and Ochloockonee rivers and their tributaries in Florida.
	www.iswonline.com /wwp/wom/tupelo.cfm (880 words)

	botanical.com - A Modern Herbal \| Eucalyptus - Herb Profile and Information
		There are a great number of species of Eucalyptus trees yielding essential oils, the foliage of some being more odorous than that of others, and the oils from the various species differing widely in character.
		To the remarkable drainage afforded by its roots is also ascribed the gradual disappearance of mosquitoes in the neighbourhood of plantations of this tree, as at Lake Fezara in Algeria.
		Red Gum is a very powerful astringent and is given internally in doses of 2 to 5 grains in cases of diarrhoea and pharyngeal inflammations.
	www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/e/eucaly14.html (2096 words)

	Eucalyptus A B C
		Tree to 75' with a large canopy to provide dense shade.
		Tree to 75' with smooth white, gray, pink or creamy yellow bark that sheds at an early age and makes it quite attractive.
		A tree 40' with white flowers and rough, thick, fibrous, dark brown bark.
	www.australiaplants.com /eucalyptus_a_b_c.htm (1457 words)

	Lone Gum district
		The name derives from a lone River Red Gum tree which is an unusually long distance from permanent water.
		This gum, which stands amid low mallee scrub — whip-stick mallee—on the highlands above the Murray Valley is peculiar, as its species is particularly confined to the vast river flats.
		Charles Tussell, a son of the gentleman who discovered the opportune tree, once showed me a gun which Captain Sturt had presented to his father when the indefatigable navigator was rowing down the long winding miles of our mightiest river.
	www.geocities.com /rogersando/riverland/monash/lone_gum_history.htm (268 words)

	Gum Tree Lodge Kimberley South Africa - Home
		The buildings that house Gum Tree Lodge in Kimberley were originally constructed as the Bultfontein Convict Station.
		Lawrie Shuttleworth (a city councillor at the time) with a committee on which De Beers, the Kimberley Municipality and Rotary were represented, and took over the flats as a youth hostel.
		The youth hostel, which was a forerunner of Gum Tree Lodge, was formally opened by the then chairman of De Beers, Mr.
	www.gumtreelodge.com (229 words)

	What's a Scribbly Gum? - April - Scribbly Gum - ABC Science Online
		Scribbly Gum is a site devoted to celebrating seasonal events in the natural world with a new story every month and an interactive forum.
		The Scribbly Gum site is named after the scribbly gum tree - an iconic Australian tree with a trunk that looks like someone has drawn (or scribbled) all over it.
		The scribbly gum tree is a eucalyptus tree with a very smooth, pale trunk.
	www.abc.net.au /science/scribblygum/whatis.htm (167 words)

	Sweet Gum Tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The sweet gum tree can easily be recognized by its leaves (up to seven inches across) which have either five or seven, pointed lobes with fine-toothed edges.
		Found in the southern states (south of Connecticut on the coast), the tree's gum, which was scraped off after removing the bark, was used earlier in chewing gum and medicines.
		The photo was taken near Swan Cove along the trail that leads from the Wildlife Loop to the main road (map).
	www.assateague.com /gum.html (133 words)

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