EUCALYPTUS TERETICORNIS
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EUCALYPTUS TERETICORNIS
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Botanical Name: Eucalyptus tereticornis Sm.
Common Name: Eucalyptus, Safeda, Nilgiri
Family : Myrtaceae
 Plate 16.1 Eucalyptus tereticornis Sm.
Species
Eucalyptus citriodora
Eucalyptus golbulus
Eucalyptus hybrid
Description
- It is a tall tree upto 40m high
- Bole is straight and clean with whitish mottled bark
- The crown is open
- Juvenile leaves opposite
- Adult leaves alternate
- Inflorescence axillary usually seven flower umbel
Distribution
- In India Eucalyptus is second most widely plated species after teak
- It is distributed/planted all over India except North-eastern states
- In is planted both in the forest and outside in agricultural lands, wasteland, roadsides etc.
Site factor
Climate
Temperature - Maximum 22°C -32°C, Minimum 2°C-12°C
Rainfall - Upto 1500 mm
Altitude - Upto 1700 m.
Soil
- It can be grown in wide variety of soil such as recent alluvial soil, laterite soils, sand dunes, ravine, murum soil and sandy loam soils etc.
- It can be grown in soils having pH more than 10 but growth is poor when pH exceeds 8.5.
Phenology
- It is evergreen species
- Flowering - Twice a year 1st in May-June 2nd in October-November
- High number of fertile seeds was set in first flowering
Silvicultural characters
- Strong light demander
- Susceptible to frost because of thin bark and essential oil in the plant tissues
- Good coppice
- It is a wind firm in nature
- Damaged by termites
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Last modified: Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 8:38 AM
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