candlebark

English

Noun

candlebark (plural candlebarks)

1. The eucalypt tree Eucalyptus rubida.
   • 1950, Elyne Mitchell, Australian Treescapes: A Photographic Study:

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

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

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

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

     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.