Large flowering eucalyptus for the South

[talford]

Beautiful trees, beautiful setting.

Evidently C. maculata has at least some tolerance for salt water and air.

Very little of that kind of coastline over here.

Thanks.

[talford]

You're in luck; I just happen to have some A. costata photos. This is native to the Sydney area.

Unusual pictures , Phillip. I remember you posted one of those on the other board. Those trees have so much character - art in the landscape.

BTW, what do you know about Angophora costata (A. lanceolata now?)

Not gonna lie Ken, Sorry, I know next to nothing about Angophora lanceolata (Sydney red Gum). Except ,of course, what I google! I'm glad you posted  here about your trial with A. costata.

In addition to being picturesque in the landscape, the tree flowers heavily in 1" white blooms.It forms a lignotuber - of extreme importance to me in this place with temperature extremes.

EUCLID, published by the CSIRO organization, lists 3 subspecies :

http://publish.csiro.au/samples....lla.htm

2 subspecies are distributed more coastaly,and A. costata has a distribution running far inland up in central QLD. :

http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/gnp8/ango-cos.html

I'm just guessing that a seed provenance from this inland area would be more tolerant of high heat/humidity than the coasterly habitats.

With 3 subspecies, maybe there is some remote possibility of seed impurity.

I did see this list of Angophora/Corymbia with Hybrids. :

www.chah.gov.au/chah/apc/interim/Myrtaceae-Angophora-Corymbia.pdf

Almost every reference to hybrids is to Hill & Johnson '95. Easy to see the list of hybrids is no where close to exhaustive.

A. costata near the top.

C. torelliana way down the alphabet.

[fastfeat]

Philip--

Great pics, esp. the one on the rock shelf!

Talford--

More interesting links, thanks! Got to catch up on reading...