Do I have a sick Gumtree?

[u/Mountain_Text_3172]

The tree is shedding lots of very thick bark and plenty of dead small branches are falling.

I've included a pic of some of the recent bark it has shed, which is thicker than my thumb.

There are also deep cracks up the trunk from almost ground level and then the lowest limb has some kind of deep rot with fungus in it.

I'm unsure what type of gum it is, but it's not a smooth bark variant I'm pretty sure. Keen for some opinions 🙏🏼

[u/CartographerUpbeat61]

This particular gum tree is the same as mine . It sheds its bark every summer .. it will be a lovely orange underneath and then fade to grey … all trees have some sort of disease and dead wood .. it’s they grow..
after 3 years of La Niña and all this rain in the ground mine has taken off and it’s huuuuuge .. so big deep gaps in the bark … hopefully it will pick up wth this warm summer and heal and grow healthy… dead wood is normal.