The welcome white-Trunked Eucalyptus next over-hung the holes of the water- course, and the valleys spread into beautiful open plains, gracefully fringed with Acacia pendula.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
And though I shouldn't have known what colours to use, because I'm not an artist, I could see that the tall stone shafts were like slender-Trunked trees crowned with high clusters of branches, as in pictures of desert palms.
"The Heather-Moon"
C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
Hollister and his men went, after the rain, up across that ravaged place, and when they came to the hollow where the great cedars and lesser fir had stood solemn and orderly in brown-Trunked ranks, the rudest of the loggers grew silent, a little awed by the melancholy of the place, the bleakness, the utter ruin.
"The Hidden Places"
Bertrand W. Sinclair