Yellow Box

Eucalyptus melliodora, commonly known as yellow box, honey box or yellow ironbark, is a species of medium-sized to occasionally tall tree that is endemic to south-eastern, continental Australia. It has rough, flaky or fibrous bark on part or all of the trunk, smooth greyish to yellowish bark above. The adult leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped, the flower buds are arranged in groups of seven and the fruit is more or less hemispherical. (Wikipedia) The wavy bark is so unusual, and the colours of the bark changed to a lovely golden hue towards late afternoon. The yellow inner bark is quite distinctive when cut. PS: A similar eucalypt species that is endemic to this area is E. tereticornis, aka forest red gum, blue gum or red irongum.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_tereticornis PPS: Many thanks to the good people at the Queensland Plant Identification group on Facebook, for their assistance to ID this spotting. There has been plenty of support for both species of eucalypt. I'll certainly have a much closer look at these trees next time I'm in the area.