On Fri, 29 May 2020 22:07:28 -0400, Radey Shouman wrote:

news18 writes:

On Fri, 29 May 2020 16:39:50 -0700, cyclintom wrote:



They were SAID to grow faster than Redwoods and that is why they were
planted to replace the coastal redwoods that were cut down for
construction material. However. as you say, they are HUGE fire hazards
filling the entire area with dry sluffed off bark, their lumber is
unusuable since it shrinks and cracks with drying and that cannot be
remedied making the wood weak and useless.

Don't tell the Austalians this, they have been using them for centuries
until the modern fad for ****ty Pinus radiata in housing and everywhere
else.

Do you know which species they grow?

I don't know anything about eucalyptus species, but the description of
California eucalyptus agrees with what I've heard.

... seems they're mostly blue gum, Eucalyptus globulus:

https://www.independent.com/2011/01/...me-california/

And they really do not grow faster than redwoods after a certain age.

Yes, Euc globulus was flavour of the month for forestry at one stage.
It grows best in moister gulliess and grows tall and eventually gives
good timber. Not like the roadside scrub in the image in the url above.

Web search Blue Ggum Forest, blue Mtns, NSw for some images.

Sounds like you have the worst of an alien invader and monoculure. Some
eucalyptus trees have a habit of exclusivity and emit toxins to stop
other seedlings sprouting near them.

At least we have possums that trim their growth by eating the young
leaves and cockatoos, galahs and other parrotss that give them hell;
mainly after insect pests that infect them.

Until, the cats and foxes over ran this country, we also had a number of
smaller mammals that helpt deal with the leaf and bark litter, hasening
the breakdown.

Now, we have managed to stuff all that and ths last year, had massive
bushfires down the east coast. Interestingly, with have 103 dead from
Covid-19, but the estimate was that we had 445 deaths from smoke
inhalation from the bushdfres from accelerated deaths in the cities and
major towns.

Anyway.