There are over 700 different species in the genus Eucalyptus, all of which are native to Australia, where they are commonly known as gum trees. With so many options and different ideal growing ...

The potted plant will stay even smaller. The leaves have a silvery to blue-green colour and emit a distinct menthol-like fragrance when bruised Eucalyptus plants are easy to care for and can be grown ...

How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to ...

At least part of the answer may lay with a beautiful, expansive, but pernicious plant: the eucalyptus tree. Eucalyptus is a genus that holds over 700 species of flowering plants. With the exception of ...

McRae, from UNSW, said a Eucalyptus plantation was a greater fire hazard than the same trees growing naturally in a forest community. “When a gum tree is happy, there’s a big shrub layer ...

Despite its introduction to the Indian subcontinent nearly 400 years ago, eucalyptus is often unfairly criticised. Some ...

That doesn’t necessarily rule out the possibility that eucalyptus trees helped to propel the flames. “Until we see a mapping of what tree was growing where, we won’t really know,” Dr Moore ...

If it had reached the UCSD campus with all its groves of very flammable eucalyptus trees, there would have been a conflagration. There was talk a couple of years ago about UCSD cutting down the ...