Dear Bee-l

     I have been collecting samples of gum trees around my bee-sites.
     I'm in Cape Town ( South Africa )- sites in Stellebosh - Paarl -
     Kalbaskraal.
     Among these I can now destinguish Eucalyptus cladocalyx (sugar gum ),
     some redgum, spider gum and river red gum. My problem is at a site
     where I get a very early, very good crop of straw-coloured ( similar
     to sugar gum), around December/Jan. These Eucalypts are very abundant
     there. The fruit looks similar to river red gum. What is this thing?
     Where, besides The SA bee journal can I get good Eucalyptus
     referances???

     Thanks for listening.
     Karl Dehning