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Eucalyptus grandis W.Hill ex Maiden

Blue Gum, Flooded Gum, Grand Eucalyptus, Rose Gum

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Summary

Eucalyptus grandis, commonly known as the flooded gum or rose gum, is a tall tree with smooth bark, rough at the base fibrous or flaky, grey to grey-brown. At maturity, it reaches 50 metres tall, though the largest specimens can exceed 80 metres tall. It is found on coastal areas and sub-coastal ranges from Newcastle in New South Wales Australia northwards to west of Daintree in Queensland, mainly on flat land and lower slopes, where it is the dominant tree of wet forests and on the margins of rainforests.

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About the genus · Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. Most species of Eucalyptus are trees, often mallees, and a few are shrubs. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including Corymbia and Angophora, they are commonly known as eucalypts or "gum trees". More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Eucalyptus”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Myrtaceae
Described by
W.Hill ex Maiden
Native to
New South Wales, Queensland
Wild records
339 in range· 52 open

At a glance

Warmest month
27°C
Jan, mean day; nights 20 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1403mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Feb 205 mm (CHELSA)
Light
20–41DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to November in the northern hemisphere (November to May at the habitat, southern). Habitat rain 1403 mm a year, wettest February at 205 mm, driest September at 53 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 20 to 41 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 5.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to November in the northern hemisphere (November to May at the habitat, southern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1054 mm of 1403 mm) falls in November to May, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 20.9 °C against a yearly mean of 18.7 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: May to November.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1403 mm a year, wettest February at 205 mm, driest September at 53 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1403 mm a year at the habitat, 1054 mm of it November to May. Wettest month February at 205 mm, driest September at 53 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1034 mm to 1764 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 20 to 41 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 20 to 41 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 16, the highest 90th-percentile month 42).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 5.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 5.3 °C, the absolute minimum 1.0 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 32.4 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 9.9 °C in July (across the envelope cells 6.5 °C to 12.4 °C), warmest day 26.6 °C in January (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 5.3 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 56 to 64% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 18 °C in Jul to 27 °C in Jan; mean night from 10 °C in Jul to 20 °C in Jan. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest night. 1403 mm of rain a year, most in Feb. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 198 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was 1.0 °C and the 99th-percentile day 32.4 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.10°20°30°40°32.4° 99th-percentile day (undated)1.0° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 20–41RH 56–64 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 198 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C27 / 25–2826 / 24–2825 / 23–2723 / 21–2520 / 18–2218 / 16–2018 / 15–2019 / 17–2122 / 19–2424 / 21–2625 / 22–2726 / 24–28
Night °C20 / 18–2220 / 18–2219 / 16–2016 / 13–1814 / 10–1611 / 8–1410 / 7–1210 / 7–1313 / 10–1515 / 12–1717 / 15–1919 / 17–21
Rain mm152 / 92–308205 / 134–346165 / 100–238137 / 92–181116 / 77–16393 / 53–11861 / 39–8157 / 36–7053 / 36–6785 / 57–104123 / 94–150156 / 88–196
DLI40 / 37–4235 / 34–3732 / 31–3327 / 24–2922 / 18–2520 / 16–2422 / 18–2527 / 24–3034 / 31–3838 / 37–4240 / 39–4241 / 40–42
RH %63 / 60–6864 / 61–7064 / 60–6862 / 59–6861 / 58–6759 / 57–6357 / 55–6256 / 55–6256 / 55–6059 / 57–6261 / 58–6462 / 59–66

Each figure is the median across the 198 grid cells holding the 320 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2180:6522 (-19.025, 146.125). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 1.0 °C, 1st-percentile night 5.3 °C, 99th-percentile day 32.4 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 198 distinct grid cells holding the 320 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2180:6522 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -19.00_146.250, lapse-corrected +598 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 864 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNew South Wales, Queensland· introduced: Morocco, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cape Provinces, St.Helena, China Southeast, Taiwan, Bangladesh, California, Florida, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Kew's description“tree” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-27.851, 153.216 · in the densest population, 185 records (55% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 339 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 52 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 97 km away. 248 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 19 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 339 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Shaun Swanepoel, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); (c) Greg Tasney, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (3).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Eucalyptus grandis, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

The genome of Eucalyptus grandis
Alexander A. Myburg, Dário Grattapaglia, Gerald A. Tuskan, Uffe Hellsten (2014) · Nature
High-throughput gene and SNP discovery in Eucalyptus grandis, an uncharacterized genome
Evandro Novaes, Derek Drost, William G. Farmerie, Γεώργιος Παππάς (2008) · BMC Genomics
Lignin and Biomass: A Negative Correlation for Wood Formation and Lignin Content in Trees
Evandro Novaes, Matias Kirst, Vincent L. Chiang, Heike Sederoff (2010) · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Modelling Stomatal Behaviour and and Photosynthesis of Eucalyptus grandis
R. Leuning (1990) · Australian Journal of Plant Physiology
EgMYB2, a new transcriptional activator from Eucalyptus xylem, regulates secondary cell wall formation and lignin biosynthesis
Monica Goicoechea, Éric Lacombe, Sylvain Legay, Snježana Mihaljević (2005) · The Plant Journal
Mechanical stability of trees under dynamic loads
Kenneth James, N Haritos, Peter K. Ades (2006) · American Journal of Botany
Structural differences between wood species: Evidence from chemical composition, FTIR spectroscopy, and thermogravimetric analysis
Matheus Poletto, Ademir J. Zattera, Ruth Marlene Campomanes Santana (2012) · Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Transpiration of urban forests in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Diane E. Pataki, Heather R. McCarthy, Elizaveta Litvak, Stéphanie Pincetl (2010) · Ecological Applications
Development, characterization and mapping of microsatellite markers in Eucalyptus grandis and E. urophylla
R. P. V. Brondani, Cláudio Brondani, Renato Tarchini, Dário Grattapaglia (1998) · Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Eucalyptus 12 in the reference

History & registers

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gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 53 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.