Gum Tree Missionaries

I've made an unusual observation while traveling around these last few months.  Everywhere we've been, I've spotted gum trees.  I had to convince our driver in Israel that these trees were in fact from Australia and not endemic - I'm still not sure he believed me.  In Gaza, there are two large gum trees in the park across the road from a restaurant we liked to go to.  In Kenya, they lined a street close to our hotel.  In Jordan, they were about the only tree I saw clinging to existence in the desert. Now here in Haiti, I've spotted a tall gum with smooth white bark and bright green leaves growing in the yard next to the hotel.

I'm sure they're real and not evidence of home sickness. It does however, make me wonder how they all got to these far flung places.  I must be following the footsteps of gum tree missionaries!