But blue gum eucalyptus trees don't just burn, they explode, according to the article. The trees helped fuel the deadly Oakland fire in 1991, which burned more than 3,000 homes and killed 25 people.

The blue gum eucalyptus, some reaching nearly 200 feet high, are thought to be the tallest stand of hardwood trees in North America. Across Strawberry Creek to the south lies the Grinnell Natural Area ...

Monarch butteflies in blue gum eucalyptus at Ardenwood Historic Farm, Fremont, California. Eucalyptus trees reflect in the canal at the Sweet Springs Nature Preserve.

Species like the Tasmanian blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) grow to heights 200 feet or more and are prized for their durability and quick growth. As such, many Australian plantations produce ...

This is the largest, densest stand of blue gum eucalyptus in the world. Olivia Allen-Price: Tell us what that is— blue gum eucalyptus… Daniel Potter: So, the genus eucalyptus includes hundreds of ...

Also called blue gum, eucalyptus is a fast-growing tree native to Tasmania, an island state south of the Australian mainland. During the California Gold Rush of the 1800s, they were planted for ...

Eucalyptus trees – native to ... The Tasmanian blue gum has become so synonymous with the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco that many ... An aerial view of the trail of devastation in ...

High on the Ventura County hillside overlooking the city, a 15-foot-tall Tasmanian blue gum eucalyptus tree was planted. It means Two Trees will remain Two Trees, perhaps long after it's Three Trees.

The blue-gum eucalyptus. The blue-gum eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus), for instance, adored for its beautiful scent and blue-hued leaves in neighborhoods across the American west, has also served ...

The trees we know as gumtrees in the Eucalyptus, Corymbia and Angophora lineages broke away from their shared common ancestor with the mesicalypts and newcalypts around 58 million years ago.