© Edna Walling Collection, La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria

Accession No.: H98.120/338
Subject/s: Caption adhered to verso reads: Candlebarks (Eucalyptus rubida) are often whiter than these, but their trunks are nearly always flecked and patched with red. Their narrow leaves make light crowns; their blossom is frost-white in spring, and in summer the leaves often exude manna that provides a feast for sweet-loving birds. Each season's new bark darkens during the year, and, drying, splits and falls in ribbons in late summer. Then the trees are chalk-white, patterned with grey and rose above the tatters of falling bark.