Eucalyptus

About 600; for a full list, see

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Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of trees (rarely shrubs), the members of which dominate the tree flora of Australia. There are almost 600 species of Eucalyptus, mostly native to Australia, with a very small number found in adjacent parts of New Guinea and Indonesia. Eucalypts can be found in almost every part of the continent, adapted to all of Australia's climatic conditions; in fact, no other continent is so characterised by a single genus of tree as Australia is by eucalypts. Many, but far from all, are known as gum trees; other names for various species include mallee, box, ironbark, stringybark, and ash.

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Genus - Tree - Australia - New Guinea - Indonesia - Mallee - Stringybark

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