Costa Georgiadis Instagram – When you plant a eucalypt, you’re not just planting a single tree. You’re actually planting an ecosystem.
– Dr Dean Nicolle OAM
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Eucalypts have enormous biodiversity value, especially as part of our urban forest.
They provide food, shelter, and nesting places for many more Australian animals, plants, and fungi than non-native trees can. While common urban wildlife like Brushtail Possums, Rainbow Lorikeets and European Honeybees are happy enough with the resources provided by many garden trees, our more specialist species, like Australia’s unique nectar-feeders, are specifically adapted to rely on and co-exist with our native flora.
In our cities, towns, and suburbs, native eucalypts on streets and in gardens are vital habitat stepping stones, linking bigger patches of native bushland and connecting wildlife populations.
And where indigenous eucalypts are planted, this effect is multiplied, the trees slotting perfectly into their natural ecosystem.
Plant native this #NationalEucalyptDay, vote for your #EucalyptoftheYear and let us know why you love your neighbourhood gums. Tag #LoveAGum_urban for your chance to win some fantastic eucalypt-themed prizes!
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