scribblygum

The gum-tree stands by the spring. I peeled its splitting bark and found the written track of a life I could not read. (Judith Wright, Aust. poet)

The wriggly squigly scribbles in various species of gum trees (Eucalypts) are made by burrowing moth larvae.

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