Eucalyptus cloeziana

Botanical Description

Eucalyptus cloeziana is an evergreen tree with a dense crown; it usually grows 10 - 25 metres tall in shallower soils, up to 45 metres in deeper soils, with some specimens up to 55 metres having been reported in plantations. The long bole can be up to 150cm in diameter, exceptionally to 300cm[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. , 1658 Title Eucalypts for Planting Publication FAO Forestry Series No.11 Author Jacobs M.R. Website http://www.fao.org Publisher FAO; Rome Year 1981 ISBN 92-5-100570-2 Description An excellent publication, rather dated now but with a wealth of information about the Eucalypts. It can be downloaded from the Internet as a PDF file. ]. The tree is sometimes grown in plantations in the tropics as a timber crop - it is among the more important plantation species in Zimbabwe, for example, where it is used for poles and pulping[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]