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§1 Plant
Eucalyptus globulus Labill.
vernacular Tasmanian bluegum — species · Myrtaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Myrtaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Eucalyptus
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 24 counties across 2 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- Medium
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 17 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 240 min.
- Precipitation
- 21–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–6.8
- Root depth
- 24 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 160 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 80 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Gray-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Fall
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Winter
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 304,326
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- High
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 24 counties across 2 states/territories.
California view state ↗ 20 I ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Contra Costa 06013
- Los Angeles 06037
- Marin 06041
- Mendocino 06045
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Riverside 06065
- Sacramento 06067
- San Diego 06073
- San Francisco 06075
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Ventura 06111
- Yolo 06113
Hawaii view state ↗ 4 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/EUGL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3176787 ↗Record version
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