white-box

Updated: May 4, 2025

It climbs, by shreds of bark, the trunks of old dead white-box and blue-gums solid and hard as cast-iron and cuts off the limbs. And where there's a piece of recently ringbarked country, with the dead leaves still on the trees, the fire will roar from bough to bough a fair imitation of a softwood forest fire.

Henry Lawson - Children of the Bush

The all-shaped patches of moonlight falling between ragged, twisted boughs; the ghostly blue-white bark of the 'white-box' trees; a dead naked white ring-barked tree, or dead white stump starting out here and there, and the ragged patches of shade and light on the road that made anything, from the shape of a spotted bullock to a naked corpse laid out stark.

Henry Lawson - Joe Wilson and His Mates