Blue gum is a common name for subspecies or the species in Eucalyptus globulus complex, and also a number of other species of Eucalyptus in Australia. In Queensland, it usually refers to Eucalyptus tereticornis, which is known elsewhere as forest red gum.

E. globulus

Other Eucalyptus spp.

References

  1. Edward A. Morris (1898). Dictionary of Australian Words, orig. Austral English.
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