My River Red Gum

You're as tall as a flamingo standing elegantly on a clear day,
You have branches that sway like voices singing in the wind,
Your flowers are as beautiful as the sun rising above the mountains. 
Koalas munch on your leaves all day, being lazy like a sloth sleeping on their branches.
Your bark is as smooth as a new babies skin,
Like the paper bark you have always been.
You're name perfectly describes you, being like a ruby next to a river.
You're the Australian tree, well at least to me
But the thing I like about you the most,
Is that you live in Aussie right up the Coast.