Corymbia polysciada, commonly known as apple gum, paper-fruited bloodwood or bolomin,[2] is a species of tree that is endemic to the Top End of the Northern Territory.
It has rough, tessellated bark on some or all or the trunk, smooth bark above, egg-shaped to broadly lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, creamy white flowers and cup-shaped, cylindrical or barrel-shaped from on long pedicels.
[2][3][4][5] This bloodwood was first formally described in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Eucalyptus polysciada and published the description in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Botany.
[6][7] In 1995 Ken Hill and Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson changed the name to Corymbia polysciada.
[2] Corymbia polysciada is widespread and common in the wetter woodlands of the Northern Territory north from near Mataranka, where it grows on stony ridges and on gravelly plains.