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The Enigma Of Bloodwood Tree

Corymbia opaca(desert bloodwood) is a tree native to Australia. The tree is most well known for the distinctive red kino that it exudes.  Australian Aboriginal  people collect bush coconuts (a type of bush tucker) from the tree, which are produced by insects.The blood wood tree is a tree that grows only in places of bloodshed such as the wilderness or places related to a combat quest. The tree provides blood wood log used in making bakriminel bolts. -Wiki

 

Description

•  The desert bloodwood has a rough bark, which when penetrated oozes a thick red kino.

•  It has tough leathery leaves.

•  Flowers appear during cooler months.

•  The hard fruit produced by the tree is the gumnut.

•  The tree generally grows 8 – 10 metres (30 feet) in height.

A bloodwood tree “bleeding” sap

 

FEATURES

•  Bloodwood trees take approximately six hours to grow back.•  Its wood is the slowest to break out of all the nether trees.•  It is fire-resistant, like all other nether trees. The wood can be used to make Bloodwood tools and weapons, such as the Blood wood hatchet, Blood wood Kama, Blood wood Pickaxe, Blood wood Shovel, as well as bloodwood planks. Because they are fire resistant, this makes it useful as walls for a fireplace or as protection from nuclear reactors, or as a firewall.

 

USES

•  The blood sap is used as a dye to be used for the face and body.

The blood-like appearance has many locals believing it has magical powers.

The blood sap is used as a dye to be used for the face and body.

 

•  When the tree is cut down, it bleeds red sap wood.

The tree releases the red sap to heal the area where it was cut.

When the tree is cut down, it bleeds red sap wood.

•  The timber is very popular as it gives off a beautiful reddish brown colour and is resistant to termites.

The material has been used for furniture and canoes.

•  Occasionally a bloodwood tree will shed a piece of bark, hence opening a “wound” through which a blood-like kino will flow. The sap flows until it crystallises, covering up the hole in the bark. Australian Aboriginals collect this substance as bush medicine.

•  The sticky gum from the tree is directly applied to sores or cuts and it works as an antiseptic.

•  Dried sap from the tree can be crushed into powder and boiled in water to use as an antiseptic wash.

•  Another use of the bloodwood sap by Australian Aboriginals is to tan “kangaroo-skin waterbags”.

•  The roots of the bloodwood tree store water.  People would dig up the roots and drain the water into a container.

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