ghost gum

plural ghost gums

1. Any of various Australian evergreen trees of the genus Corymbia, especially Corymbia papuana.First known use 20th c.

   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.

   1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 4

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   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 […].

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