Blue gum
நீலப் பசை மரம்యూకలిప్టస్ గ్లోబ్యులస్യൂക്കാലിപ്റ്റസ് ഗ്ലോബുലസ്
Eucalyptus globulus Labill.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 50 m
- wide
- 6.0 m
Myrtaceae
Also called Southern blue gum, Tasmanian blue gum, Tasmanian bluegum
Formerly Eucalyptus gigantea, Eucalyptus glauca, Eucalyptus globulosus, Eucalyptus perfoliata
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Victoria to E. TasmaniaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 50 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 45–45 m; Plants for a Future 55–55 m
- Spread
- 4.0 m to 8.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -5 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 桉油, 桉叶, 桉树果
- Asturian
- ocalitu
- Welsh
- ewcalyptws glas
- German
- Blauer Eukalyptus
- Finnish
- Kuumepuu
- French
- Gommier bleu
- Galician
- Eucalipto azul
- Dutch
- Blauwe gomboom
- Polish
- Eukaliptus gałkowy
- Portuguese
- Eucalipto-comum, eucalipto-da-Tasmânia
- Russian
- Бесстыдница, Эвкалипт шариковый, Эвкалипт шаровидный
- Simplified Chinese
- 蓝桉
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0 au
- 3D model: Eucalyptus globulus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.