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York gum
[Named after York, a town in Western Australia east of Perth.]
A gum-tree, Eucalyptus loxophleba, of Western Australia, or its timber.
1846[see gum n.2 5]. 1889J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. ix. 449 Samples of this timber were sent to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition under the name ‘York gum’ (E. loxophleba). 1934T. Wood Cobbers viii. 101 In addition to seeds for me—yates gum and york gum and mallee wattle—a cold turkey sat in the back seat. 1944Coast to Coast 1943 60 The slope..rose towards his own home, a thin tracery of york-gums screening the house. 1965Austral. Encycl. III. 407/1 York gum..and wandoo..are pale-coloured Western Australian timbers. |