Giant Water Gum (Rose Satinash)

About

In Border Ranges National Park's Sawpit Creek area, this giant tree drops such prodigious quantities of fruit that they collect downstream in beautiful pink floating rafts.

How to spot it

Medium to large tree occasionally over 30m, scaly reddish-brown bark with prominent buttresses, opposite pointed leaves 4-8cm with wavy margins and pinkish new growth, pale blue-lilac-purple flattened berries.

Found in

• Border Ranges National Park