ghost gum

English

a ghost gum Corymbia ficifolia

Noun

ghost gum (plural ghost gums)

1. Any of various Australian evergreen trees of the genus Corymbia, especially Corymbia papuana. [from 20th c.]
   • 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 4:

     Arkady's job was to identify the ‘traditional landowners’ […] and to get them to reveal which rock or soak or ghost-gum was the work of a Dreamtime hero.

   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 102:

     What Norm could do with stories he had practised down to a fine art and glued it to surviving relics, like the still-to-be-found fire-gutted ghost gum willed by providence to the families' memories of Westside […].

Further reading

• ghost gum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Corymbia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Corymbia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• ghost gum at Tropicos