Corymbia terminalis

Corymbia terminalis, commonly called bloodwood or desert bloodwood, is a small to medium-sized tree of the Myrtaceae family, typically reaching about 18 metres tall and forming a lignotuber; in harsher sites it occasionally grows as a mallee. The trunk and larger branches bear rough, tessellated bark in shades of light brown to grey. Juvenile leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped and 60 to 170 mm long, while adult leaves are lance-shaped, 80 to 200 mm long and 12 to 30 mm wide, dull grey-green and similar on both surfaces. Flower buds are borne in groups of seven on branched axillary peduncles and open as creamy-white flowers between March and October. The fruit is a thick-walled, woody, urn-shaped capsule 15 to 31 mm long enclosing winged, reddish-brown seeds. The species is endemic to arid and seasonally dry inland regions of the Northern Territory, Queensland, north-western New South Wales and northern South Australia, growing on river flats, scree slopes and dune swales.