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We’re not saying this eucalyptus tree in Australia is a gold digger, but, uh, it has literally been drawing up gold from the ground and accumulating the metal in its leaves. PopSci writes: ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eucalyptus leaves are the main food supply for Australia's koalas, but there is a lot more to the tree than that. It is native to Australia but has become the ...

The hardy eucalyptus, native to Australia and the favored food of koalas, has an ancient relationship with fire. Scientists have found that in most cases eucalyptuses, commonly known as gum trees ...

Designed to thrive after fires Like many plants native to fire-prone regions, eucalyptus trees (aka gum trees in Australia) are adapted to survive — or even thrive — in a wildfire.

Also called blue gum, eucalyptus is a fast-growing tree native to Tasmania, an island state south of the Australian mainland. During the California Gold Rush of the 1800s, they were planted for ...

Australia's giant eucalyptus trees are the tallest flowering plants on earth, yet their unique relationship with fire makes them a huge puzzle for ecologists. Now the first global assessment of ...

Drake worked on the project when he served as a researcher at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at the University of Western Sydney in Australia. The team's findings, published in the ...

According to the paper, eucalyptus and acacia trees, such as the ones studied at the Freddo and Barns Gold prospects in Western and South Australia respectively, have deep and extensive root systems.

Eucalyptus trees were transplanted to Southern California from Australia and planted in groves, mainly as wind breaks. In Downtown Huntington Beach, mostly Red River eucalyptus trees were ...