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Eucalyptus deglupta is a species of tall tree, commonly known as the rainbow eucalyptus, [3] Mindanao gum, or rainbow gum [4] that is native to the Philippines, Indonesia, Timor Leste and Papua New Guinea. It is the only Eucalyptus species that usually lives in rainforest, with a natural range that extends into the Northern Hemisphere. It is ...
A rainbow eucalyptus can grow indoors with these expert tips.
The term is widely used for trees with this across southern Australia, [5] across the states of Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria. [1] The term is also applied to other eucalypts with a similar growth habit, [2] in particular those in the closely related genera Corymbia and Angophora.
Most species of Eucalyptus are trees, often mallees, and a few are shrubs. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including Corymbia and Angophora, they are commonly known as eucalypts or "gum trees". Plants in the genus Eucalyptus have bark that is either smooth, fibrous, hard, or stringy and leaves that have oil glands.
A mallet is a small-tree form of Eucalyptus found in Western Australia. Unlike the mallee, it is single-stemmed and lacks a lignotuber. Species of this form have a relatively long, slender trunk, steeply-angled branches, often a conspicuously dense terminal crown, and sometimes form thickets. Mallet species include: Brown mallet (Eucalyptus ...
Eucalyptus grandis is a food plant of paropsine beetles of the family Chrysomelidae and Christmas beetles, the latter often defoliating trees of Australia's east coast. Clones of Eucalyptus grandis have been selected and bred on the basis of unpalatability to the brown Christmas beetle (Anoplognathus chloropyrus) to minimise damage to ...
Eucalyptus regnans is a very fast growing tree, with mean height growth rates in young (< 22 years old) stands ranging from 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) to 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) per year. [26] In fact, some individuals grow at more than 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) per year for the first 20 years of their lives.
Eucalyptus wandoo, commonly known as wandoo, dooto, warrnt or wornt [5] and sometimes as white gum, [6] [7] is a small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. [8] It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of nine to seventeen, white flowers and conical to cylindrical fruit.