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If we continue along the path until we get to the stone bridge but instead of crossing the bridge we look to the left, we can see an Australian Gum tree, or Eucalypt - a Snow Gum (Eucalyptus pauciflora ssp. debeuzevillei) which hails from the mountains of New South Wales. Three Eucalypts were planted in this area in the mid 1970s but this, the biggest of its kind growing in Sussex, is the only one remaining and it is unfortunately not healthy, and the lower trunk shows symptoms of its poor condition. But it has a beautiful spiral bark pattern and the peeling bark which is characteristic of many Eucalyptus species.
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This page last updated: 26/01/2005
