Blue-leaved stringybark is a koala food tree.
The frame was made from ironbark and stringybark but as there was a shortage of shipwrights the ship took an inordinately long time to construct.
The walls of the house are made of horizontal drop slab cut from local timbers including stringybark from the top of the mountain.
The bark is rough, resembling a stringybark, though not as coarse, and in flat strips.
Below this down to 1,000 m above sea level the most common trees include the silver-top stringybark and rough-barked mountain gum.
Originally, the main industry was cutting stringybark trees for timber.
The bark is rough, resembling a stringybark, but in firm elongated slabs, with shallow longitudinal furrows.
The stringybark is a small to tall tree up to 40 metres (130 ft) tall and a metre wide at the base.
