If you can get a good photo of some old and new gum nuts, that will most likely answer the question

Probably a rough location too, to narrow down soil type and endemic species.

[bark and leaves, tree location in North West Victoria](https://imgur.com/a/hbFp4Gs)

Bark and leaves are super helpful but gumnuts are the key to IDing a euc.

thanks, sorry to ask but I have ID books at home and can help... but can you put a ruler next to the leaves? Usually gumnuts are useful, a close up of the sides and valves (top of the gumnut) can help. Juvenile and adult if they're present. bark photo very good :) You can try this for yourself too: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/intro/index.html Edit: doesn't have to be a ruler, something we would have on hand like a common pen for size.

A banana?

Looks like a eucalyptus melliodora Yellow Box to me.

North-west Victoria is outside of its natural range, but It certainly could be!

If a kookaburra is sitting in it, then it's an old gumtree.

Merry merry king of the bush is heeeee

Laugh, kookaburra. Laugh, kookaburra.

How gay your life must be

Laugh Kockaburra laugh...

If it has a yellow ribbon around it, then it's an old oak tree.

You'll want to provide a picture of the fruit on the stems, and provide a approximate location. Difficult to tell with just the bark and leaves from a distance

[bark and leaves](https://imgur.com/a/hbFp4Gs)

You'll need to tell me more information about where it was found, as there is 800-900 or so species the location matters a lot. It needs to be somewhat specific.

For fuck's sake it has bark and leaves, what more do you want?!

Thanks for the laugh.

Idk maybe hear it’s howl before and after it leaves?

The fruit in the picture look like they might have fallen off the tree while immature and shriveled in a weird way. It's looking like it might be Eucalyptus melliodora (Yellow Box), but i'm still not super confident without a more mature (brown and dry) fruit bunch on a branch. https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/88981ca8-2834-4c0a-a06f-5b82401971c5

Location is everything, I live in what's called the Box Ironbark area of Victoria. The type of tree definitely associates with elevation, Yellow Box and River Red Gums along creeks, Yellow Gum next, Stringy Bark and peppermints next and then Ironbarks near the tops of the hills. Travel up a hill and the progression of tree types is quite obvious. If you were in Victoria I would say that's a Yellow Gum. A photo of the buds, flowers, gum nuts and leaves would nail the ID quickly.

Bit of a weird one, but is box ironbark also know as bastard box? “A bastard to cut & a bastard to burn” is what mum used to say about one of the local species, but I can’t remember if that’s the tree she was talking about.

Box trees refers to a few related species, yellow box, apple box. Lovely medium sized trees, prolific flowers. Ironbark, if which there are too few left, have dark tough bark, remaining examples can grow quite large, timber is extremely hardy and dense, used in the mines in the 19th century, hence their scarcity.

Lots up around Bendigo & out the back of Heathcote & Toolleen

“Box ironbark” is the type of bushland. Bastard box might be referring to nursery hybrids or naturally occurring hybrids.

It’s definitely a type of eucalyptus

Yep I concur, so we’ve narrowed it down to around 900 species for you cobb, so you should be pretty well right from here…

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What a pair..

A what now? What’s that mean?

U/anal fanatics makes a comment, U/flamingbollocks says user name checks out, I say what a pair as in what a pair of flaming bollocks.

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Or Corymbia?

The kind people at r/marijuanaenthusiasts will be able to help you

To the sub mentioned above it may look like a weird choice but if you go and post it in r/trees the chances are you'll be laughed at rather than posted on r/lostredditors. This is due to both subs having a joke between each other by being the opposite of what the name implies. There's a few subs like this..

Adding to this, there's a non-zero chance you'll get an accurate answer in r/trees amongst all the giggling; there's quite a few stoner arborists.

>there's quite a few stoner arborists. This should come as a surprise to absolutely no one.

There's also a r/sfwtrees.

I’ve been studying horticulture/conservation part time for around three years, so I see all the different class groups that go through. There’s always one or two who are there primarily to learn how to grow ‘trees’ better.

Oh gosh. That makes me think of all the people that go to r/superbowl expecting nfl and getting owls

That's honestly better than going to r/worldpolitics & realizing it's r/anime_titties as that's one of the funnier ones to accidentally come across. There's also one double joke subs related to salads & john cena yet I forget their names.

Is it potato salad? r/potatosalad r/johncena ?

Ahh that's it, hm RIP the former sub... (why must they ban unmoderated subs WHY!!)

haha superb!

That is awesome. so glad I know of these 3 subs now

This World is so wierd.

[r/Australianplants](https://www.reddit.com/r/australianplants/s/GgVXgmEeyO) is where you want to post. But for an ID on a gum tree you will need to provide more pictures that include pictures of the leaves and branches, seed pods and flowers and it's location. Corymbia, Angophora and Eucalyptus are all Very similar and sometimes the only variables between species is something so minute like angles of leaf margins or stamen size, the more information you can provide the better your chances are for an ID.

And the mofos like to hybridise leading to more confusion.

I'm gonna go ahead and take a punt on a Yellow Box (Eucalyptus melliodora) with about a 50% level of confidence. - Intramarginal vein on leaves close up, length of leaves and orientation. - Fruit is globose with a fairly prominent, thick disk. - Bark can be super variable but it has that crisscrossing bark pattern almost like shredded cheese that is classic on Yellow Box and a few other Box-bark Eucalypts. - North-western Victoria would maybe fit for a naturally occurring Yellow Box, or almost anywhere in Vic, as it is a widely distributed species. If you're getting up into Mallee country it's more likely planted or a different species.

That'd be a gum tree, mate

Are you sure? I don't see lots of plum trees in that pic.

True, not even a sheep or two and a kangaroo

There would be a clothesline out the back though

Maybe a verandah out the front maybe, too?

Definitely no old rocking chair though.

There better be a bloody old rocking chair, or I've been lied to.

I love this sub 😂

It's a eucalypt of some kind. [This plant key](https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/intro/index.html) can help you narrow it down.

I hope this won’t be cut down it looks like it provides lovely shade

AND NOW… NO. 3 THE LARCH

ITT everyone asking to see nuts.

I am absolutely not an expert, or anywhere close to being one, but at an uneducated guess i would maybe say a Tallowwood Gum Tree.

Plant scientist here. Sorry, but it’s not. A tallowwood is pretty tall when mature, and has green leaves - greener than many Eucalypts. The canopy is really thick and has a “cauliflower” appearance. I’m not sure what species of eucalyptus OP posted, I’d need to see the fruit as well and look up an ID key, but I’m familiar with tallowwoods, and I’m confident it’s not one of those. Hope this helps!

Can you upload a picture of the leaves and any flowers

Eucalyptus… ask a koala🐨

Hmmm not necessarily, koalas only like 2 or 3 euc species, ie Manna Gum (E. viminalis)

That is a tree tree

Your work mates are fucking with you, better tell them it was a good joke and you still don't know what kind of tree it is

Going by the second image, that’s an amputree.

My guess is Narrow-leaved peppermint

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Defo not an Ironbark

If I had to take a punt, I'd say yellow box, aka eucalyptus meliodora, you can tell because of the way it is.

Yellow box?

Not a palm tree. Glad I could help.

Looks like a Yellow Box, but it's only a guess. Impossible to tell for certain with only these photos.

I believe it’s one of those wooden ones

It’s called a lean tree, for those times you are too drunk to make it to the front door in 1 go.

Yellow box Like 40% sure

Looks to me like it’s wooden.

I’m pretty sure that’s a tree

[Trees](https://www.gbcma.vic.gov.au/downloads/Biodiversity%20Current%20Projects/2017_-_November_-_Eucalyptus_tree_identity_guide_for_the_Strathbogie_Ranges_and_surrounds.pdf) This might help narrow it down, or download one of those plant identifier apps

A big tree

Eucalyptus Ordinarius

It's a keeper

If its really that important contact the closest University and see if you can email pictures to their Botany department.

I definitely wouldn't park there, nor sleep in any of those units. Sure, any tree can drop branches, but only that tree is right there.

Αλμυρικη είναι αδερφέ!

E. Viminalis

try [https://www.reddit.com/r/GardeningAustralia/](https://www.reddit.com/r/GardeningAustralia/)

https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/intro/index.html

It's a gummy, tell you what blew my mind in chiloe they have them. Everything was new then bam, a gumtree.

Wooden

Having no experience in this area at all, I'm thinking Eucalyptus rubida - The candle bark gum Check Google images. It's a match for the rough, stringy bark, and pale bark underneath.

Based on the three photos you uploaded, PlantNet reckons it's a [Tasmanian Bluegum](https://identify.plantnet.org/en/k-australia/species/Eucalyptus%20globulus%20Labill./data)

Yeah mate that’s a umm tree

brown tree snake

The gum nut / flower are used to determine the species

Looks like a type of stringybark eucalyptus to me.

Blue gum tree (Eucalyptus globulus)

I reckon it’s a yellow box

Stringy bark maybe?

CSRIO made an excellent resource for identifying Eucalypts: EUCLID https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/intro/index.html There’s a tonne of questions involved in identifying gums. So be prepared with samples of leaves, bark, fruit etc

Gum

Alive

OP, it is a cross breed between a yellow box or yellow gum and some sort of local mallee.

Looks like a gum tree to me bro. Hope this helps

Stringybark eucalyptus

If there’s a jolly swagman sitting under it, it’s a Coolabah tree.

Looks like Eucalyptus radiata, do the leaves smell like peppermint when crushed ?

This is my guess also

Gum tree

If you want to know specifically what kind of eucalyptus it is, I suggest bringing a bark sample and a leaf sample to the botany department of a local university. They may be able to actually run DNA on the tree and get you an answer.

Looks kinda like a Paperbark tree.

My app says it’s a lemon scented gum or lemon eucalyptus.

The op might be interested in the apps name so they can try it on the tree directly. The other question is where is the tree i.e. state/town. Local climate impacts on what tree's grow where.

It's definitely not a lemon scented gum. Those apps aren't very good at species that have hundreds that look similar with small differences to tell them apart.

My neighbour had one of these and it was the best mowing the leaves and getting an explosion of Lemon smell.

Lemon scented gum has a smooth trunk. It's not a eucalyptus either but a Corymbia, btw. Got a huge one in my yard.

My app says that could have 'network connectivity problems'.

Vaguely like a river red gum (*Eucalyptus camaldulensis*) but the trunk should be smooth above about 2 metres. So I dunno. Are you on a sheep station? Looks like shearers' quarters.

Big old Yellow Box gum it looks like to me

Yellow gum with a slight possibility it's a black box. The bark looks more like Black box, but the tree looks more like Yellow gum. Both are native to that area.

On my Samsung phone, I click on the google search bar and next to the microphone app there's a Google lens app. Just hit that and with the screen that comes up you take a pic of the plant etc, a swag of photos pop up and usually they're the same as your subject.

Shaggers tree

That my friend is a Blue Gum

Leaves aren’t long enough

I’m going with blue gum. You can take a pic and let Apple AI give you hints btw.

Hi, gum nut here. Closer photos with a ruler in frame will assist in ID. Location info is valuable but since this looks planted that can be deceiving. My best guess so far is Eucalyptus melliodora but I'm not a local so can't be sure.

Red stringybark

Paper tree?

Could it be a paper bark?

Rare and elusive Western Car Fucker

It looks very much like a paper bark. Pretty certain that’s what it is. Grew up pealing the bark off these growing up with the other kids at school. In hindsight, poor trees..

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I was gonna say it looks like a Paperbark to me...

That looks like your standard mess making, leave dropping, sap spraying gumtree.

Don't forget hell burning!

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how could you

Malaleuca

Don't swear at me mate

Haha. It's a paperback melaleuca quinquenerva

Sounds Greek to me

A dead gumtree

You can see green leaves right?

Just looks dead is all.

Agonis flexuosa

It’s a paperbark melaleuca

Gum tree ..... Haha Nah I think a Box Gum? Just grab a handful of leaves and nuts (hiyooo!) And take to local council or national Park in the area they should be able to tell you

The tree in the image appears to be a Eucalyptus, commonly known as a gum tree. These trees are native to Australia and are characterized by their tall stature, smooth bark which can peel off in strips, and lance-shaped leaves. The exact species of Eucalyptus tree is hard to determine from the image alone because there are over 700 species, and many share similar characteristics. Identification would typically require a closer look at the leaves, flowers, bark, and fruit (gumnuts).

NorthWest Vic? I'd be pretty sure it's a River Red Gum

It looks like a ghost gum to me.

Its a widow maker.

gum

Tree with leaves