Pretty to look at.
A Right-Royal Pain in the back part of your front when you own a couple.
The two in my yard shed in excess of two 44 gallon drums worth of bark each year.
Not to mention having to clean out the rain gutters about twice a month....
This is one, not long ago it finished dropping its bark:

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This is why we call them "Gum Trees":

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