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An Introduction to the EucalyptsThis page serves as a link page to information prepared by staff at the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research on the eucalypts. The term eucalypt can be considered to cover the genera Eucalyptus (the Gums), Corymbia (the Bloodwoods and Ghost Gums) and Angophora (the Apples). These plants are all in the family Myrtaceae. It should be noted that recognition of Corymbia is not without contention. Here at the Australian National Herbarium we do not recognize the Bloodwood and Ghost Gum eucalypts as being distinct at the generic level. Thus, we maintain them as Eucalyptus.
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EUCLID- Eucalypts of south-eastern Australia
EUCLID is a computer-based interactive identification and
An Introduction to the Eucalypts A brief introduction to eucalypt classification and biology.
A more detail outline of the classification of the eucalypts
What's a Corymbia? - A New Name for the Bloodwood and Ghost Gum Eucalypts
A short explanation of one view of why the Bloodwood and Ghost Gum
Some drawings of eucalypts done by Baron Ferdinand von Mueller in 1877.
Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research Updated 6 September, 2001 by Andrew Lyne  |
