mr walker
Persistence.
It takes a lot to kill a gum tree. They just keep on sprouting, no matter how many of their notoriously brittle branches snap off with age and weight. (Never camp underneath one, if you can help it.) This one is a great example of how much they can persist. It may be as old as several centuries, but it's still a young tree - i.e. most of the healthy trunk grew in the last couple of decades.
Persistence.
It takes a lot to kill a gum tree. They just keep on sprouting, no matter how many of their notoriously brittle branches snap off with age and weight. (Never camp underneath one, if you can help it.) This one is a great example of how much they can persist. It may be as old as several centuries, but it's still a young tree - i.e. most of the healthy trunk grew in the last couple of decades.