Eucalyptus (Topical Term)

Random House (Eucalyptus pl. ti, tuses, genus Eucalyptus, also Eucalypt)

Britannica Micro. (Eucalyptus: large genus of mostly very large trees of the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) native to Australia and New Zealand. In Australia the eucalypti are commonly known as gum trees or stringybark trees)

Wikipedia, July 11, 2005 (Stringybark: A stringybark can be any of the many Eucalyptus species which have thick, fiberous bark. Like all eucalypts, stringybarks belong to the Myrtaceae family.)

Gardener’s dict., via Natl. Gardening Assoc. website, July 11, 2005 (stringybark: A group of trees of the genus Eucalyptus characterized by long, fibrous strands of bark. Included in this group are the following: E. blaxlandii (Blaxland’s stringybark), E. aggloerata (blue-leaved stringybark), E. alpina (Grampian stringybark), E. capitellata (brown stringybark), E. cinerea (mealy stringybark), E. globoidea (white stringybark), E. macrohyncha (red stringybark), E. muellerana (yellow stringybark), and E. obliqua (messmate stringybark); ironbark tree: A common name for any of several trees of the genus Eucalyptus, having solid bark and extremely heavy, hard, durable wood)

Above ground biomass of a mixed eucalypt forest in eastern Victoria , 1979