Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Myrtales > Myrtaceae > Eucalyptus > Eucalyptus gunniiEucalyptus gunnii (cider gum)Eucalyptus gunnii, the cider gum or gunnii, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae, endemic to Tasmania, occurring on the plains and slopes of the central plateaux to around 1100 metres, with isolated occurrences south of Hobart. |
| Air Quality Improvement [1] | None | | Allergen Potential [1] | Medium-High | | Carbon Capture [1] | Medium-Low | | Shade Percentage [1] | 83 % | | Temperature Reduction [1] | Medium-Low | | Wind Reduction [1] | Medium |  | | Edible [2] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | | Flower Type [2] | Hermaphrodite | | Hazards [2] | Citronellal, an essential oil found in most Eucalyptus species is reported to be mutagenic when used in isolation;
In large doses, oil of eucalyptus, like so many essential oils has caused fatalities from intestinal irritation; Death is reported from ingestion of 4 - 24 ml of essential oils, but recoveries are also reported for the same amount; Symptoms include gastroenteric burning and irritation, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, oxygen deficiency, ,weakness, dizziness, stupor, difficult respiration, delirium, paralysis, convulsions, and death, usually due to respiratory failure; | | Leaf Type [2] | Evergreen | | Pollinators [2] | Bees | | Scent [2] | The leaves are very aromatic. | | Structure [2] | Tree | | Usage [2] | Leaves yield between 0.4 to 0.8% of an essential oil that contains antifungal substances;
Coppiced for fuel. The wood must be dried for at least 12 months before use;
Trees can be planted in wet ground to dry it up and make it unsuitable for mosquitoes to breed in; | | | Height [2] | 98 feet (30 m) | | Width [2] | 20 feet (6 m) | | | Hardiness Zone Minimum [1] | USDA Zone: 7 Low Temperature: 0 F° (-17.8 C°) → 10 F° (-12.2 C°) | | Hardiness Zone Maximum [1] | USDA Zone: 10 Low Temperature: 30 F° (-1.1 C°) → 40 F° (4.4 C°) | | Water Use [1] | Low |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1i-Tree Species v. 4.0, developed by the USDA Forest Service's Northern Research Station and SUNY-ESF using the Horticopia, Inc. plant database. ♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 ♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández ♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants♦ 6Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19 ♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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