Towering gum trees creak softly overhead, and from a hundred metres away, the shushing of the ocean can be heard.

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The flow of the river, made constant by careful management to please consumers, did not suit the handsome river red gum trees along its banks, which thrive on drought and flood.

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There will also be a new regional sports club set in parkland, with a garden square centred on the original Eton Manor Boys Club war memorial and it will be lined with sweet gum trees which turn red around Remembrance Day.

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When Adams arrived in town, the school site was a dense forest of sweet gum and pine trees.

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Before Produits du Sud began, southern Malians tapped the gum-producing trees only for traditional medicines to treat the common cold, sore eyes, or a stomach ache.

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Locals have been extracting the natural chicle gum base from the bark of the chicozapote trees for a century, a spokesman for Chicza told CNN.

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