#eucalyptus โ Public Fediverse posts
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Out #bloomscrolling but also seeing insects and birds as plants and trees are in their flowering season Friday September 4th 2026
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#PaintByWords #Acorn
Technically this isn't an actual acorn; it's a eucalyptus seed pod, but it looks very similar in size and features.
#ECK #Eucalyptus #ClassicMono #Texture #Macro -
#PaintByWords #Acorn
Technically this isn't an actual acorn; it's a eucalyptus seed pod, but it looks very similar in size and features.
#ECK #Eucalyptus #ClassicMono #Texture #Macro -
Walked through #Goolugatup Heathcote in Applecross on a headland above the Derbarl Yerrigan Swan River.
Many tall beautiful trees.
But this is social media and we're looking at the large gum tree that has no large branches left on it.
There are signs of large branches having broken off the massive trunk. Others have been cut off.
And a chainsaw cut has been started on the trunk near its base.
This tree may be a widowmaker.
Trying to find the species.
#Eucalyptus #Widowmaker #Perth #Boorloo -
A quiet resting place among the gums.
Mildura, Victoria, Australia.
ยฉ ๐๐ต๐ต ๐ก๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฝ๐ผ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ผ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฎ๐น๐ผ ๐ช๐ท๐ญ ๐ช ๐๐ช๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป๐ช.
(๐โด๐๐ท๐โฏ ๐๐ฝโฏ ๐ซโฏโฏ๐ ๐, ๐นโด๐๐ท๐โฏ ๐๐ฝโฏ ๐ โฏ๐๐๐ โฏ๐ธ๐๐พ๐โฏ!)
#Photo #Photography #2PeepsAndACamera #Australia #Victoria #River #Mildura #Eucalyptus #PicnicSpot #NaturePhotography #GoldenGrass
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#DidYouKnow: #GingerTreeSyndrome is a condition affecting #Eucalyptus trees, particularly the #Tasmanian white gum (Eucalyptus viminalis). Extreme heat events are the primary culprit.
Ginger tree syndrome highlights the vulnerability of eucalyptus trees to climate change, particularly heatwaves.
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Want to grow #eucalyptus in your yard but they are too darn big?
Try #pollard, an ancient practice of cutting the "poll" at a pre-determined height and using or cycling the material for mulch. Every cut is always made on new wood so it's a sound #arboriculture practice, it can maintain #trees to specific heights that are reset on a cycle plus they don't get out of control. Bonus is, they also live longer based on a pollard history of thousands of years.
Pictured here are Eucalyptus cloeziana, Gympie Messmate, pollards with #vetiver grass underneath as a mulching plant. The Vetiver existed first, the #eucalypts were planted in after the Vetiver Grass suppressed the pasture grass.
These poles will be grown and harvested as 2.1m posts eventually while some Kei Apples and Citrus establish underneath.
As soon as these reached a medium size, insects like sawfly and stick insects moved in which were never present before as the area is too small to grow full size Gum trees.
If you are interested in a history of #coppice and/or pollard, there are some books available, one example: https://www.williambryantlogan.com/sprout-lands
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New paper from my old group:
Long-read genome assemblies of 33 species of eucalypt (gum tree) from across Australia, encompassing ~70My of evolution. Key finding: macrosynteny is preserved, but microsynteny rampantly disrupted. Cool result given the propensity for inter-specific hybridization and gene flow.
Preprint here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.19.537464v1
Feel free to reach out with any Q's!#preprint #genome #trees #eucalyptus #genomics #genomeassembly #biorxiv #botany #synteny #structuralvariation