candlebark

plural candlebarks

1. The eucalypt tree Eucalyptus rubida.

   Candlebark is best seen just south of the end of Jerrabomberra Avenue on its western side.

   1968, Lindsay Dixon Pryor, Trees in Canberra, Incorporating a New Section on Woody Shrubs

   2 more examples

   In the Nariel Valley there are immense and lovely candlebarks rising singly from the rich paddocks where the dairy cattle graze.

   1950, Elyne Mitchell, Australian Treescapes: A Photographic Study

   Shafts of sunlight poured through the tall ferns and candlebark trees that lined King Parrot Creek, along which they drove until the road opened into a beautiful green valley at Flowerdale.

   2006, Alan Pilkington, Four of Diamonds: An Australian's Journey, page 195