A bee tree is a tree in which a colony of honey bees makes its home.

A colony of bees may live in a bee tree for many years.

Most bee trees have a large inner hollow, often with an upper and lower entrance.

A log gum is essentially a bee tree cut into a short section that contained a colony of honey bees.

But today's grower may grow 200 acres (80 ha), and, if lucky, there might be one bee tree left within range.

Silas found a bee tree high on the hillside behind the cabin.

Taking up a bee tree was hard on the hunter but harder on the bees.

Soon he had established a new bee- line, which, when triangulated with the first, gave him a fair idea of where the bee tree was.

The bee tree in the town square had been there as long as anyone in Maryville remembered.

When a bee tree was spotted, the wardens often had to chop it down.