A commercial scale plant supplying Virgin Australia with aviation fuel derived from eucalypt trees could be up and running by 2014, announced on Wednesday the airline. In conjunction with three ...

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 ...

That’s a real killer for Eucalypts.” As eucalyptus trees originate from Australia, some varieties don’t deal well with the cold, but there are two that do. These more resilient varieties are ...

They’re native to Australia but are becoming one of the most widely-planted trees across the ... Yes, some varieties get super tall – at 328ft Eucalyptus regnans is the tallest flowering ...

Source: Brett Mifsud Australia’s island state is home to the world’s largest flowering trees (eucalyptus regnans), the tallest of which is a 96-metre giant called ‘Centurion'. But a major ...

As such, many Australian plantations produce varieties like the blue gum ... voyaged to Australia and became enchanted with the eucalyptus tree. He was so taken with the tree’s durability ...

Eucalyptus trees, originally from Australia, account for a quarter of Portugal's total forest area and cover around 10% of the country, according to the latest national forest inventory.