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Container Grown Ornamental Eucalyptus: add an Australian touch to your garden (II)

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Ornamental
Eucalyptus: specialised Nursery Production


Gustavo Iglesias Trabado
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We bring you today yet other four presentation examples of several types of cold hardy ornamental Eucalyptus. Some of these gum trees are specimen plants in big containers suitable for display at garden centres or urban landscaping and requiring special care in this case. Others of these container grown plants are suitable for direct planting into convenient garden designs but requiring appropriate maintenance operations post-planting.


Cold Hardy Ornamental Eucalyptus for gardens in temperate climates / Eucalipto ornamental resistente a la helada para jardinería en climas templados / GIT Forestry Consulting, Galicia, España, Spain(click image to enlarge)
Cold tolerance: -15ºC to -20ºC
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Cold Hardy Ornamental Eucalyptus for gardens in temperate climates / Eucalipto ornamental resistente a la helada para jardinería en climas templados / GIT Forestry Consulting, Galicia, España, Spain(click image to enlarge)
Cold tolerance: -8ºC to -12ºC
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Cold Hardy Ornamental Eucalyptus for gardens in temperate climates / Eucalipto ornamental resistente a la helada para jardinería en climas templados / GIT Forestry Consulting, Galicia, España, Spain(click image to enlarge)
Cold tolerance: -15ºC to -20ºC
More information? Cold Hardy Ornamental Eucalyptus for gardens in temperate climates / Eucalipto ornamental resistente a la helada para jardinería en climas templados / GIT Forestry Consulting, Galicia, España, Spain


Minilyptus, Cold Hardy Ornamental Eucalyptus for gardens in temperate climates / Minilyptus, Eucalipto ornamental resistente a la helada para jardinería en climas templados / GIT Forestry Consulting, Galicia, España, Spain(click image to enlarge)
Cold tolerance: -8ºC to -12ºC
More information?


Minilyptus, Cold Hardy Ornamental Eucalyptus for gardens in temperate climates / Minilyptus, Eucalipto ornamental resistente a la helada para jardinería en climas templados / GIT Forestry Consulting, Galicia, España, Spain(click image to enlarge)

All these eucalypt types can thrive in USDA Zone 8 and some can tolerate USDA Zone 7 winters in gardens with appropriate microclimates. Most Eucalyptus benefit from full sun exposure and suitable protection from wind damage during their first years.


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Cold hardy forestry seedling Eucalyptus nursery in Galicia / Vivero de planta forestal de eucalipto resistente a la helada en Galicia / Planta Forestal / Eucalipto nitens / Eucalipto Brillante / Eucalipto globulus / Eucalyptologics / GIT Forestry Consulting, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Galicia, España, Spain High quality forestry standard Eucalyptus seedlings at nursery

Complementary to timber oriented eucalypt experience GIT Forestry Consulting's team of Agronomic and Forestry Engineers has conducted horticultural trials in Northwestern Spain with select germplasm of over 30 Eucalyptus types having ornamental potential in both temperate humid Atlantic and Mediterranean climates, and has sorted out detailed individualised solutions to adapt successful productive process engineering to different nursery infrastructures and industrial scale plant production schemes. An interesting range of potential products for the ornamental plant market has been obtained matching high quality standards.


Cold hardy ornamental Eucalyptus nursery in Galicia / Vivero de planta ornamental de eucalipto resistente a la helada en Galicia / Planta Forestal / Planta Ornamental / Eucalipto Jardin / Eucalipto bonsai / Eucalipto nitens / Eucalipto Brillante / Eucalipto globulus / Eucalyptus bonsai / Eucalyptus garden / Eucalyptus Blue Silver / Eucalyptus gunnii / Eucalyptus gunni / Eucalipto guni / Eucalyptologics / GIT Forestry Consulting, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Galicia, España, Spain Ornamental Eucalyptus 'Blue Silver' sculpted as big bonsai


This know how (what + when + how + why + how much) and our ability to organise training courses for your nursery staff is now available via consulting agreement to experienced wholesale and specialist ornamental plant nurseries interested in joining cooperative strategies for production and commercialization.


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Cold hardy Eucalyptus dalrympleana in Galicia (NW Spain)

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Eucalyptus dalrympleana in Galicia (NW Spain) ... and elsewhere

Gustavo Iglesias Trabado
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Dalrymple who?

Back in 1767 a British gentleman named Alexander Dalrymple theorised on the existence of a Terra Australis Incognita to the south of New Guinea, and suggested a route to the Unknown based on the old maps done by Luis Váez de Torres, the Spaniard that a century earlier could have discovered Terra Australis... twice. Three years after the theory Sir Joseph Banks was onboard Captain Cook's Endeavour towards Botany Bay, which would start the practical discovery of Australian flora and soon of a new country for the British Empire. Eucalyptus country.


Cold hardy Eucalyptus dalrympleana in Galicia / Mountain White Gum / Eucalipto Blanco de Montaña (E. dalrympleana) en Galicia / GIT Forestry Consulting, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, España, SpainFig 1: Mountain Gum grove in the Highlands of Galicia (NW Spain)

A species distributed accross a large spatial range in Australia, E. dalrympleana was not described until 1920, when Joseph Maiden (later honoured with E. globulus ssp. maidenii) gave that name to samples collected by forester Wilfred De Beuzeville (honoured later also with E. pauciflora ssp. debeuzevillei) in New South Wales and Victoria.

The eucalypt of Richard Dalrymple-Hay, Chief Commissioner of Forests in NSW some 150 years after the first Dalrymple, can become a giant single stemmed tree 50 m height but is generally grown in short rotation cycles in European plantations than what is needed for such a size, achieving normally 20 to 30 m by harvest time.



E. dalrympleana: four subspecies

Given its presence in a large geographic area, from Southern Queensland and the Tablelands of New South Wales to Tasmania, variability is inevitable. Currently our eucalypt botanist of reference, Dean Nicolle, recognises four subspecies:
  • E. dalrympleana ssp. dalrympleana - Mainly present along the Great Dividing Range in both Victoria and Southern NSW
  • E. dalrympleana ssp. heptantha - 7 flowered mountain white gum from Northern NSW
  • E. dalrympleana ssp. 'Tasmania' - In mid to high elevations in the Highlands of the Central Plateau
  • E. dalrympleana ssp. 'Alpine' - Small to medium sized tree growing in restricted populations found above 1200 m altitude in the Victorian Alps
Bark of cold hardy Eucalyptus dalrympleana in Galicia / Mountain White Gum / Corteza de Eucalipto Blanco de Montaña (E. dalrympleana) en Galicia / GIT Forestry Consulting, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, España, SpainFig 2: Smooth white bark with grey patches in Eucalyptus dalrympleana, also known as Mountain White Gum

By the days of Maiden describing new species, another eucalypt, E. viminalis, was already commonly cultivated in South Africa, South America, California and Europe. Also known as white gum and manna gum, it can be easily confused with E. dalrympleana, as can also happen with E. rubida.

This opens a door for more confusion, since seed of white gum grown overseas until well beyond 1920 could have been of any of these species, but only E. viminalis was known. Which can easily make local races derived from old trees before foresters understood the importance of good seed collection methods and good seed provenance records also suspicious of having some Mountain Gum blood in them.


E. dalrympleana: hybrids and clines

Indeed hybridism is relatively common event in the natural habitat of the White Mountain Gum, and the example of Eucalyptus viminalis x dalrympleana has been found with relative frequency in those areas where both species grow together (which is not so rare, given the high degree of overlapping habitats for both eucalypts, also both within Subgenus Symphyomyrtus and Series Viminales, close relatives).

Seedling of cold hardy Eucalyptus dalrympleana in Galicia / Mountain White Gum / Planta de Eucalipto Blanco de Montaña (E. dalrympleana) en Galicia / GIT Forestry Consulting, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, España, SpainFig 3: Seedling of E. dalrympleana displaying juvenile sessile leaves in opposite pairs

This was initially suggested to explain variation among seed provenances from mainland Australia by Mendonza as early as 1968, since a narrow 50 m belt of intermediate forms where populations of both species occupy the same habitat later was found. It was later confirmed in forestry trials in Argentina.

Coppice of cold hardy Eucalyptus dalrympleana in Galicia / Mountain White Gum / Rebrote de cepa de Eucalipto Blanco de Montaña (E. dalrympleana) en Galicia / GIT Forestry Consulting, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, España, SpainFig. 4: Juvenile and intermediate leaves in different specimens of coppiced E. dalrympleana

A further milestone was established in 1980 by Philips & Reid, who examined a transect of 120 km from sea level to the Highlands in Tasmania and observeed clinal variation in this natural Eucalyptus vimdal Complex, identifying a continuum of intermediate forms from thin lanceolate juvenile leaves of E. viminalis in coastal areas to cordate juvenile leaves typical of E. dalrympleana in the Central Plateau and concluding intermediate specimens were the most common type. Variation for flower buds and seed capsules in what regards to their sizes and numbers was not as consistent as juvenile foliage variation in a geographic sense.


E. dalrympleana: botanical identification

Following our normal recommended methodology to identify Eucalyptus species, after observing the trees as a whole and paying attention to their growth habit and bark type, and having examined samples of flower buds and seed capsules that can lead us on the track of the White Gums, the key factor that can yield more information on what particular subspecies or potential hybrid form under scrutiny we are in front of is, for this particular case, juvenile foliage.

Juvenile leaves of cold hardy Eucalyptus dalrympleana in Galicia / Mountain White Gum / Hojas juveniles de Eucalipto Blanco de Montaña (E. dalrympleana) en Galicia / GIT Forestry Consulting, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, España, SpainFig. 5: Detail of juvenile leaves in E. dalrympleana, rounded to heart shaped, dull green with blueish tone, not waxy. Key ID factor to avoid confusions with other species.

Juvenile leaves of cold hardy Eucalyptus viminalis in Galicia / White Gum / Manna Gum / Hojas juveniles de Eucalipto Blanco del Maná (E. viminalis) en Galicia / GIT Forestry Consulting, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, España, Spain
Fig. 6: Detail of juvenile leaves in E. viminalis, opposite and lanceolate, glossy green, not waxy. Key ID factor to avoid confusions with other species.

This can confirm the prepared observer if a clear case of any subspecies of E. dalrympleana or any subspecies of E. viminalis is present, or if something else. Unless your trees have something to do with France!


E. dalrympleana: French cold hardy eucalypt hybrids

E. dalrympleana is an interesting eucalypt species from the point of view of cold hardiness. As early as 1954 French authorities started trialling different types of eucalypts in the Southern part of the country with aims to timber production. A good range of well identified seed provenances was used for this. Time would prove the extreme frost events occurring every some years in Southern France would take their toll on any wide scale plantation programme, and research on cold hardy Eucalyptus selection, breeding and propagation to obtain select strains would be the logical next step.

This involved several species from the 1972 on, but the focus was centered on two of them, E. gunnii, the Cider Gum from Tasmania, able to cope with absolute minima in the range of -15 to -20ºC, and E. dalrympleana, the Mountain White Gum, that proved itself worthy after evaluation of trials for growth rates and form.

The results of this effort of breeding, selection, domestication and controlled hybridisation yielded in the 1980's a new gene pool with echoes to the natural E. vimdal: Eucalyptus gunnii x dalrympleana, the E. gundal. Frost tolerant in the range of -10 to -15ºC, select clones of this hybrid strain can yield 20 to 25 m3 of timber per hectare and year, which makes it an interesting safe option for the colder part of ATL1 zones, albeit a bit risky for timber production ventures in ATL2 zones except in their milder part. Comparable to some extent in this sense to other cold hardy eucalypts commonly grown for timber production in Northwestern Spain, as E. macarthurii and E. nitens.

After the devastating effects of unusual heavy frosts as the ones affecting the Midi-Pyrénées in 1985, reaching absolute minima lower than -20ºC, the focus has been put on further selection of cold hardy strains among the E. gunnii side of the genetic pool (more than 600 clones) and further planting has taken place in the last 10 years.


E. dalrympleana: the Spanish case

In Northeastern Spain, efforts for the development of plantings based on E. dalrympleana in Catalonia that had started in the late 1970's were rocketing during the 1980-1990 decade, and varietal selection plus clonal propagation was attempted with some success in the early 1990's. Some 3000 ha of both E. dalrympleana and E. gunnii existed in Girona back then, and specimens of some provenances resisted temperatures down to -17ºC.

Timber plantation of cold hardy Eucalyptus dalrympleana in Galicia / Mountain White Gum / Plantacion Forestal Maderable de Eucalipto Blanco de Montaña (E. dalrympleana) en Galicia / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado / GIT Forestry Consulting, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, Information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation Worldwide / Recursos de Informacion sobre el Cultivo del Eucalipto en el MundoFig. 7: Timber plantation of cold hardy E. dalrympleana at 600 m elevation in the highlands of Galicia ready for harvest.

In Northwestern Spain, small groves of E. dalrympleana, E. viminalis, intermediate forms between them, and some E. gunnii exist scattered in Central Galicia, evolving unwatched into local races at altitudes varying from 500 to 900 m accross the tablelands and some mountain ranges. We always keep an eye on plus trees. You never know what open pollination can yield.


Interesting literature

Mendonza, L. A. (1968) Morphological characters and cold resistance in some natural Eucalyptus hybrids. M. Sc. Thesis, Australian National University.

Mendonza, L. A. (1974) Ensayos de procedencias de
Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehn, y E. viminalis Labill. en el norte de la provincia de Buenos Aires. IDIA Suplemento Forestal 1973-74, 53-60.

Philips, R. L. & Reid, J. B. (1980) Clinal variation between
Eucalyptus viminalis Labill. and E. dalrympleana Maiden. Australian Journal of Botany 28, 329-342.

Marien, J.N. & Thibout, H. (1982) Les Eucalyptus en France. Annales de Recherches Sylvicoles 1981, AFOCEL, Association Forêt-Cellulose, 34 – 72

Griffin, A. R., Burguess, I. P., & Wolf, L. (1988) Patterns of natural and manipulated hybridisation in the genus
Eucalyptus L'Hérit. - a review. Australian Journal of Botany 36, 41-66.

Ruíz, J. (1993) Selection and vegetative propagation of Eucalyptus dalrympleana Maiden. Proceedings of IUFRO-AFOCEL meeting: Mass Production Technology for Genetically Improved Fast Growing Forest Tree Species. Bordeaux 14-18/september/1992. Vol II pp: 277-283

Rodríguez, S. & Ruíz, J. (1993) Progreso con eucaliptos resistentes al frío en Cataluña. Actas del I Congreso Forestal Español. Sociedad Española de Ciencias Forestales - SECF. Pontevedra, 14-18/Junio/1993. Vol. II pp: 47-52

Nguyen, The N. (2003) Présentation générale de l'Eucalyptus. Lettre d'information semestrielle
Eucalyptus. Fiche Nº1. AFOCEL, Association Forêt Cellulose. [PDF]

Melun, F. & Nguyen, The N. (2005) Fiches Clonales: Eucalyptus gundal (E. gunnii x dalrympleana). AFOCEL, Association Forêt Cellulose. [PDF]

Purse, J. (2005) Eucalyptus species with potential for biomass in the British Isles. PrimaBio,
Eucalyptus Specialists.

Nicolle, D. (2006) Eucalyptus of Victoria and Tasmania. Bloomings Books. Melbourne.



Curious links

An intrepid plantsman photographs what is possibly the northernmost flowering Eucalyptus in the world. A blooming E. dalrympleana... in the fjords of Norway!

Eucalyptus dalrympleana flowers at 61ºN in Nautesund, Norway /Northernmost flowering eucalypt in the world / Eucalipto blanco de montaña floreciendo a 61ºN en Nautesund, Noruega / El eucalipto en flor más septentrional del mundoNorthernmost flowering Eucalyptus: E. dalrympleana at 61ºN


Recommended book


We started at Dalrymple and jumped to Dalrymple-Hay talking about eucalypts today, so the proper thing is jumping now from Dalrymple-Hay to Hay to end up this Eucalyptus story. By Gum!

Gum: the story on Eucalyptus and Their Champions, by Ashley Hay / Eucalyptus bookGum: the story of Eucalypts and Their Champions
by Ashley Hay


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Eucalyptus: coastal rainforests in Galicia (Spain)

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Some notes on narrow-sense sustainability of Eucalyptus globulus cultivated forests in Galicia


Gustavo Iglesias Trabado
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We have seen earlier in EUCALYPTOLOGICS some examples of old growth in the eucalypt timberbelt of Northwestern Spain, specimens representative of a middle stage (1900-1940) in the spread of these Australian trees from botanical rarities growing in plant collections or private gardens (1860-1900) to a major timber crop. The remaining trees of those old days are currently giants, and in some cases, natural monuments.

Giant Eucalyptus globulus ssp globulus in the Northern coast of Galicia, Spain / Ejemplar gigante de Eucalipto blanco en la costa norte de Galicia, España / GIT Forestry Consulting, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería AgroforestalFig 1: Giant isolated specimen of Eucalyptus globulus growing at sea level near one of the nowadays largest eucalypt forest in Europe.

Impressive growth rates achievable in an all year-round warm climate with abundant rainfall and frequent fog soon caught attention of peasants, foresters and timberjacks. As soon as 1913 some authors quote:

"It is the first species [E. globulus] which has become more common, be it as isolated specimens, be it forming small groves, or sometimes small forests as the so very beautiful one owned by the intelligent agriculturalist and enthusiastic friend of the trees, the Hon. Marquiss of Loureda, from whose timber the good looking telegraph poles recently installed in the Landfill Park of Corunna were provided, as construction timber for the building currently on the works at la Palloza, and many others. This proves, against common belief, it is suitable for different uses"

And also detect issues with its cold hardiness:

"This species, if thriving admirably in our temperate and humid climates, as in our seashores, suffers and even dies in the colder ones, where other already known species should be propagated since they resist very low temperatures, and could become in those forestlands and all the others available with a similar climate, a source of inmense wealth in few years".

Still, in an illetered nation where changes spread mostly "after seeing it worked well for your neighbour" and not by learned readings, planting rates were relatively modest for a long time and concentrated in some particular areas of coastal Galicia. We have recently visited (Fig. 2) one of these areas where cultivation of E. globulus has been continuous for some 70 years.


Eucalyptus globulus cultivation for more than fifty years without critical irreversible ecological impact / Cultivo de eucalipto blanco por más de cincuenta años sin impactos ecológicos críticos e irreversibles / GIT Forestry Consulting, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Galicia, España, Spain Fig. 2: Different stages of Eucalyptus globulus cultivation, showing a mosaic of recently harvested plots, young coppice growth, mature timber crops and new plantings. Agricultural use of land is in regression due to rural exodus and confined to the more fertile lands at the bottom of valleys.

Cultivated mainly in short rotations (12 to 18 years old) and taking advantage on the ability of E. globulus to resprout from the stump, a coppice regime is the most usual. Number of alive stumps tends to decrease with time and each subsequent harvest, but it is not uncommon seeing three or four cycles of timber production before a new planting happens.

It is in many cases this decreasing number of coppicing stumps by the end of a production cycle and not soil exhaustion what reduces timber outputs in the long term.


Understorey of an Eucalyptus globulus coastal rainforest: something grows under Eucalyptus / Sotobosque de un bosque lluvioso costero de Eucalyptus globulus: hay vida bajo los eucaliptos / GIT Forestry Consulting, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Galicia, España, SpainFig 3: Pictoresque view of a walk through the understorey of the Eucalyptus globulus coastal rainforest in Galicia (Northwestern Spain). Chestnuts, oaks, laurels, fernery...

After more than five decades of continuous cultivation, in this large coastal forest soils have not been depleted but remain highly productive as long as rational forestry practices have been performed. This fact itself can be quite shocking for those people used to hear that eucalypts can cause havoc and transform fertile soils into wastelands. But yet another myth, the one of "nothing grows under Eucalyptus", can be easily asessed as such just with a short walk through the cultivated forest (Fig. 3). Being walking through a productive timber crop which is subject to periodic operations of harvest and clearing (once per cycle on average), it cannot be expected that a fully functional mature native forest develops. But the abundance and variety of plants and animals coexisting in these artificial coastal rainforests is certainly far beyond zero.

A humanized landscape, the same way the previous landscape before the arrival of eucalypts was. But sometimes, when wandering through these woods, especially the extramature plantings, one can easily have the impression of being walking under Australian trees in habitat.

Galician landrace Eucalyptus globulus ssp. globulus seedling / Planta de raza local gallega de Eucalipto globulus (eucalipto blanco) / GIT Forestry Consulting, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Galicia, España, SpainFig 4: Seedling of Eucalyptus globulus some weeks after planting

It all started with some few seedlings grown as foreign rarities some 150 years ago. Nowadays several hundred thousand private investors have voluntarily incorporated Eucalyptus into their timber culture, and the once foreign tree is widely (albeit incorrectly) known as "Eucalipto do pais" ("Native Eucalypt"). Galicia has become, among other things and with other regions of Northern Spain, País do Eucalipto. Eucalyptus country.

A friendly final point for those pondering on rumours stating the expansion of Eucalyptus cultivated forests has been achieved by destroying the almost non existant for the last 200 years ecologically mature native oak forests of Galicia. Think twice and read between the lines. Foresters have been recording "what tree was growing where" from earlier times than those which made these Australian trees achieve an strategic timber resource status. Focusing a bit less on propaganda and a bit more on history might be helpful for all.


Some types of Eucalyptus forests in Galicia and the Northwest of Spain and Portugal

(more to come, we are hunting them all!)


Have you seen the Giant Eucalyptus Movie?


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