72 NATIVE FLOWERS OF VICTORIA. 
duration. Some specimens growing in cultivation 
have had a bloom period for over four months of the 
year. 
To one Victorian tree, Eucalyptus paniculata, 
Baron von Mueller gave the name of box-ironbark. 
The red ironbark is Eucalyptus sideroxylon, and in 
this case the wood being so hard, it may be called iron- 
wood (for that is the meaning of its name) as well 
as ironbark. 
Other common names, mountain-ash, woollybutt, 
bloodwood, blackbutt, mahogany, blackwood, and 
others, are generally applied to definite trees, although 
these, too, sometimes apply to two or three species. 
