Eucalypts

A $1.5million research grant to the University of Wollongong aims to elucidate why people feel better after lolling around under towering eucalypts.

My paintings of unfamiliar landscapes in Scotland and Ireland always seem to depict trees that look like eucalypts.

A new mural, spanning the Western wall of the Blaxland Cellars, shows some inquisitive King Parrots perched amid Banksias and Eucalypts, alongside well-known icons of Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos and Waratahs.

According to Richard R.K. Pankhurst, "The great advantage of the eucalypts was that they were fast growing, required little attention and when cut down grew up again from the roots; it could be harvested every ten years.

Although separate, the three groups are allied and it remains acceptable to refer to the members of all three genera, Angophora, Corymbia and Eucalyptus, as "eucalypts".

By the early 1900s, thousands of acres of eucalypts were planted with the encouragement of the state government.

It was most likely an accident that L'Heritier chose a feature common to all eucalypts.