In spring, creamy white clusters of flowers appear. In autumn, its red berries can be made into a jelly for eating with game. Beech trees are part of the large beech family of trees, which includes oak trees and chestnuts as well as beech trees themselves. Beeches are often the dominant species in temperate forests. Eucalyptus trees grow mainly in Australia and Tasmania, where they are called gum trees.
All eucalyptus trees are evergreens, but there are many kinds.
Some reach barely 1m in height. The swamp gum grows about 90m tall. Among the gum trees widely used for timber are the jarrah, the messmate, and the blackbutt. The leaves of the Tasmanian blue gum provide an oil used as a medicine and to help refine petroleum. The forests of the tropics are the world's richest plant habitat.