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Heading south from the Clare Valley, the two-lane blacktop is flanked by fields of barley and wheat tall enough to catch the wind in waves, before breaking on lonely gumtrees.

From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2020

We passed over four miles of firm open ground, with some small rough gumtrees upon it.

From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Mitchell, Thomas

He pressed on, and at last, on November 5th, not far from El Obeid, the harassed, fainting, almost desperate army plunged into a vast forest of gumtrees and mimosa scrub.

From Eminent Victorians by Strachey, Giles Lytton

Near the channel of the river there are gumtrees, and on the banks of the river and Archer Creek there are box-trees.

From Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills by Landsborough, William

Our way led us through a large but not dense wood of leafless gumtrees.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis