Red bloodwood

Corymbia gummifera, the red bloodwood, is an evergreen tree of the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) endemic to eastern Australia, typically growing 20–35 m tall with a stout trunk supported by a lignotuber. The bark is persistent, rough and tessellated on trunk and branches, often weeping a deep red gum (kino) from wounds that gives the tree its common name. Adult leaves are alternate, lance-shaped, glossy dark green above and paler below, 90–165 mm long, while juvenile foliage is broader and paler. Creamy-white flowers are borne in branched panicles of seven-budded umbels from December to June and are followed by characteristic woody, urn-shaped capsular fruits 12–22 mm long. The species occurs on coastal flats and low hills from far eastern Victoria north to south-eastern Queensland, growing on a range of moist sandy and loamy soils in sclerophyll forest and woodland.