The Tasmanian Blue Gum is the floral emblem of Tasmania.
The national plant of Tasmania is the Tasmanian Blue Gum tree, also known as Eucalyptus globulus. It is a tall tree with distinctive blue-green leaves and is native to Tasmania. The Tasmanian Blue Gum tree is important for its timber and as a habitat for wildlife.
The Tasmanian Blue Gum is the floral emblem of Tasmania.
The floral emblem of Tasmania is the Tasmanian Blue Gum. These floral emblems usually grow 30-55 meters tall, but the tallest Tasmanian Blue Gum grew up to 90.7 meters tall. The Tasmanian Blue Gum (also called the Southern Blue Gum) is an evergreen tree, which means it has leaves in all seasons.
The Tasmanian devil is not an emblem. Tasmania has no official faunal emblems.
Tasmania does not have an official faunal emblem, but its unofficial animal emblem is the Tasmanian Devil. The floral emblem is the Tasmanian Blue Gum.
There are several species of Blue gum, and they are mostly found in the southern regions of Australia, except for the Sydney blue gum. The South Australian blue gum (Eucalyptus leucoxylon) is found through the plains, ranges and coastal regions of South Australia and western Victoria. The Tasmanian blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) is found throughout Tasmania and the southeastern mainland. The Sydney blue gum (Eucalyptus salina) can be found in coastal and lower mountain ranges in the Sydney basin, through the eastern coast from southern New South Wales north to Mackay on central Queensland's coast.
Sturt's Desert Rose, Gossypium sturtianum, is the floral emblem of the Northern Territory.It should not be confused with the Sturt's Desert Pea, the emblem of South Australia.
Various insects will eat the bark and sapofgum trees. Koalas and Greater Gliderseat gum leaves and flowers, whilst wombats will sometimes eat the leaves and shoots around the base of very young trees. Possums and gliders will eat nectar-laden flowers, as will many species of parrots and honeyeaters.
A Blue Gum Romance was created on 1913-09-20.
The scientific name for Queensland Blue Gum is Eucalyptus tereticornis.
Gum trees, or trees of the eucalyptus genus, belong to the myrtle family, known as Myrtaceae. The subfamily is Myrtoideae.