Sentences with phrase «manna gum trees»
On Australia's south coast west of Melbourne, the koala population on Cape Otway — where the species was reintroduced in 1981 — outstripped the food supply (a favored koala delicacy, manna gum trees) in recent years, with hundreds of animals exhibiting signs of starvation.
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The word means a fragrant gum; and this strongly supports the identification of manna with a sweet substance which is found adhering to the tamarisk tree, a honey - like sap sucked out by insects and available in greatest quantity in June.
In the wild they eat the sap and gum of the eucalyptus and acacia tree plus pollen, nectar, manna (a sugar deposit from the sap oozing from wounds on tree branches or trunks), honeydew (sugar secreted by sap - sucking insects) and a wide variety of insects and spiders.
Koalas love of Manna Gum, and their intolerance to a rapid change in diet, results in them staying in bare trees rather than moving to another tree type, such as those found in the neighboring Great Otway National Park.