Silver princess eucalypt in the rain

Eucalyptus caesia, Silver princess or gungurru is a species of mallee. It's always been a favourite of mine because of its unique looks. It's whitish-silver bark that transitions to that deep red.dish brown. 

The fruit have three or four different shapes and stages and it has those umbrella-like pink stamen and yellow anthers on the flowers. They are some of my favourite native colours. 

It droops! The branches weep down and it's sparsely foliated. The leaves, like many eucalypt trees, have a waxy coating so the rain and dew beads on them making for gorgeous photos.

Then there's the beautiful bark! It's vertically striped up the trunk. What an odd tree! I just love it. 

Anyway it rained the other day and I had a chance to test my sandmarc macro lens on the phone, it was the perfect opportunity. Here are the results.