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The River Red Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) is a tree of the genus Eucalyptus. It is a plantation species in many parts of the world but is native to Australia where it is widespread especially beside inland water courses. Oddly, it is named for the Camaldoli monastery near Naples, from where the first specimen came to be described. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 400 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1067 × 1600 pixel, file size: 1,015 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) 700 yr old Red River Gum, Wonga Wetlands, NSW If you are a (commercial) publisher and you want me to write you an email or...
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Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ...
Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class: this name is formed by replacing the termination -aceae in the name Magnoliaceae by the termination -opsida (Art 16 of the ICBN). ...
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Genera 130; see list The Myrtaceae or Myrtle family are a family of dicotyledon plants, placed within the order Myrtales. ...
natural range Species About 700; see the List of Eucalyptus species Eucalyptus (From Greek, eu + καλÏπτω = True Cap) is a diverse genus of trees (and a few shrubs), the members of which dominate the tree flora of Australia. ...
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natural range Species About 700; see the List of Eucalyptus species Eucalyptus (From Greek, eu + καλÏπτω = True Cap) is a diverse genus of trees (and a few shrubs), the members of which dominate the tree flora of Australia. ...
It is a familiar and iconic tree seen along many watercourses right across inland Australia. The tree produces welcome shade in the extreme temperatures of central Australia, and plays an important role in stabilising river banks, holding the soil and reducing flooding.
Description
It usually grows up to 45 metres tall; its thick (30mm) spongy, bark is dappled with red, grey, green and white.
River Reds have an ominous name, "Widow Maker", as they have a habit of dropping large (often half the diameter of the trunk) boughs without warning. This may be a means of saving water or simply a result of their brittle wood. This is also an efficient way of attracting wildlife that live in the holes formed which gives the red gum a source of natural ferterliser
Ecology The "snags" formed when River Red Gums fall into rivers such as the Glenelg, are an important part of river ecosystems, and vital habitat and breeding sites for native fish like River Blackfish. Unfortunately most snags have been removed from these rivers due to short-sighted water management. In Australia, the trees, branches and other pieces of naturally occurring wood found in a sunken form in rivers and streams are called snags. ...
Binomial name Gadopsis marmoratus Richardson, 1848 The River Blackfish, Gadopsis marmoratus is an Australian freshwater perch. ...
Hollows start to form at around 120 – 180 yeas of age, creating habitat for many wildlife species. A River Red Gum, with hollows. ...
The Superb Parrot, a threatened species, is amongst the bird species which nest in the River Red Gum[1]. Binomial name Polytelis swainsonii Desmarest, 1826 The Superb Parrot, Polytelis swainsonii, also known as the barraband parrot, is a beautiful, up to 40cm, bright green parrot with long tail feathers, yellow-green below and yellow eye. ...
Formation of the Barmah Red Gum Forests The formation of the famous Barmah Red Gum Forests is due to a relatively recent geological event in the Murray-Darling Basin involving the Cadell fault. Semi-arid grazing country near Burra Creek, South Australia The Murray-Darling Basin drains one-seventh of the Australian land mass and is currently by far the most significant agricultural area in Australia. ...
River Red Gum seeds germinate readily after floods and require regular spring floods throughout their life to survive. In the Murray-Darling Basin, such floods are now rare due to river regulation for irrigation, and as a result, 75% of River Red Gums in the lower Murray are stressed, dead or dying.
The largest remaining stand of River Red Gum is the 65,000ha Barmah-Millewa forest straddling the border of Victoria and New South Wales, due north of Melbourne. It retains enormous cultural significance to the Indigenous traditional owners, the Yorta Yorta Nation. Like many stands of River Red Gum, the Barmah-Millewa has been drastically altered by over 100 years of timber harvesting. There is a paucity of old hollow-bearing trees which provide habitat for rare and threatened fauna such as the Superb Parrot, Brush-tailed Phascogale and Inland Carpet Python. The increasing scale of logging machinery is creating large areas of intensive soil disturbance and bare earth, which is likely to increase weed invasion and increase the likelihood of the extinction of rare understorey plants.
About 25,000 years ago, displacement occurred along the Cadell fault, raising the eastern edge of the fault (which runs north-south) 8-12 metres above the floodplain. This created a complex series of events. A section of the original Murray River channel immediately behind the fault was abandoned, and exists today as an empty channel known as Green Gully. The Goulburn River was dammed by the southern end of the fault to create a natural lake. The Murray River flowed to the north around the Cadell Fault, creating the channel of the Edward River which exists today and through which much of the Murray River's waters still flow. Then the natural dam on the Goulburn River failed, the lake drained, and the Murray River avulsed to the south and started to flow through the smaller Goulburn River channel, creating "The Barmah Choke" and "The Narrows" (where the river channel is unusually narrow), before entering into the proper Murray River channel again. The Murray River, or River Murray, is Australias second-longest river in its own right (the longest being its tributary the Darling). ...
Goulburn River is either: Goulburn River, New South Wales, Australia Goulburn River, Victoria, Australia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The Edward River is a river in the south west Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. ...
The primary result of the Cadell Fault however is that the west-flowing water of the Murray River strikes the north-south running fault and diverts both north and south around the fault in the two main channels (Edwards and ancestral Goulburn) as well as a fan of small streams, and regularly floods a large amount of low-lying country in the area. These conditions are perfect for River Red Gums, which rapidly formed forests in the area. Thus the displacement of the Cadell Fault 25,000 BP lead directly to the formation of the famous Barmah River Red Gum Forests.
Cultivation E. camaldulensis readily germinates from both fresh seed and seed stored in cool dry conditions. It quickly toughens up and can withstand drought even whilst in forestry tubes. It makes an excellent bonsai and will readily regrow both from the base and from epicormic buds.
Uses Red gum is so named for its brilliant red wood, which can range from a light pink through to almost black, depending on the age and weathering. It is somewhat brittle and is often cross-grained, making hand working difficult. Traditionly used in rot resistant applications like stumps, fence posts and sleepers, more recently it has been recognised in craft furniture for its spectacular deep red colour and typical fiddleback figure. It needs careful selection as it tends to be quite reactive to changes in humidity (moves about a lot in service). It is quite hard, dense (about 900 kg/m3), can take a fine polish and carves well. It is a popular timber for wood turners, particularly if old and well-seasoned. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (768 × 1024 pixel, file size: 164 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Please see the file description page for further information. ...
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It is also popular for use as firewood. Significant amounts of Victoria and NSW's firewood comes from Red Gums in the Barmah forest. Barmah has the distinction of being the only town in Victoria that is north of New South Wales at . ...
The wood makes fine charcoal, and is successfully used in Brazil for iron and steel production. In addition, this plant is used for beekeeping in Brazil and Australia. Beekeeping, tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis (XIV century) Beekeeping (or apiculture, from Latin apis, a bee) is the practice of intentional maintenance of honey bee colonies, commonly in hives, by humans. ...
It is one of the most widely planted eucalypts in the world (ca 5,000 km² planted) (NAS, 1980a). Plantations occur in Argentina, Arizona, Brazil, California, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Upper Volta, Uruguay, and Zimbabwe.
A view down the Murray River - every tree you can see is a red gum Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1792x1200, 930 KB) Summary River redgums growing along side the Murray River at Echuca, Victoria, Australia. ...
| 700 yr old tree at the Wonga Wetlands, NSW Image File history File links Size of this preview: 421 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1123 × 1600 pixel, file size: 962 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) 700 yr old Red River Gum, Wonga Wetlands, NSW If you are a (commercial) publisher and you want me to write you an email or paper...
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References - CSIRO, 2004. Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh. River Red Gum. [1]
- Mackay, Norman and David Eastburn (eds) 1990. The Murray. Murray-Darling Basin Commission, Canberra. ISBN 1-875209-05-0.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List and Red Data List), created in 1963, is the worlds most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species and can be found here. ...
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Binomial name Eucalyptus regnans F.Muell. ...
Binomial name Eucalyptus delegatensis The Alpine Ash (Eucalyptus delegatensis) of southern Australia is a straight, grey-trunked tree, reaching heights of over 90 metres in suitable conditions. ...
Binomial name Eucalyptus pauciflora Sieber ex Spreng. ...
External links - Center for New Crops & Plant Products, Purdue University
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