River Red Gum lines the Murray, the Darling and their tributaries, its roots deep in the floodplain. It is the most widespread of the eucalypts and one of the most Australian of trees — the shade of picnics, the timber of sleepers and fence posts, the tree in a thousand paintings.
On the rosary
Red Gum is characterful. Beads may carry a fleck of gum vein or a swirl of figure, and no two decades look alike. The colour ranges from a fresh coral red to a settled reddish brown.
Why we chose it
The tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Red Gum is for those who want their prayer grounded in their own country.
