""It's one of the eucalypts that sheds big limbs," Mr Harris told WAtoday.com.au.
"They can shed terribly big limbs and you wouldn't know (if they were about to)."
Mr Harris is an engineer by profession. The tree is native to Victoria, NSW and southern Queensland.
He said fumes built up in the limbs of Eucalyptus Melliodora causing them to crack at unpredictable moments."
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