Here's how to grow and care eucalyptus in your garden like an expert. Plus, ideas on how to harvest and use the plant ...

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Praises to our San Diego fire department for making short work of the Gilman fire. If it had reached the UCSD campus with ...

Removing invasive eucalyptus trees from Anthony Chabot Regional Park could help mitigate wildfire risk where wildland-urban ...

But climate change bringing hotter, drier conditions means the trees – especially plantations of Eucalyptus globulus or Tasmanian blue gum grown for paper – are contributing to bushfires from ...

From wafting tar pits and smells of the beach to native plants and a chocolate factory, our readers smelled Los Angeles and ...

L.A. must balance fire resilience with ecological preservation by gradually replacing flammable non-native plants like ...

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Several proud men standing by giant eucalyptus trees on East Lake Avenue in Watsonville, circa 1913. Eucalyptus trees were ...

Eucalyptus was introduced to the subcontinent from Australia in 1843, but substantial plantings did not occur until after 1950. A further impetus was observed in the 1970s and 1985 with the launch of ...

Worsening fire conditions are the biggest threat. As large trees develop over centuries, large fissures form in their trunks.

Eucalyptus trees – native to Australia – were seen as an easy solution to a critical shortage of wood brought on by the economic boom. Opportunistic Aussies “imported and planted them in ...