Eucalyptus Ecosystem History
- These trees must have been seen by the very European explorers and collectors such as Joseph Banks, Daniel Solander who arrived with Botany Bay and Captain James Hook.
- The name obliquus, meaning "oblique", which is the botanical term describing a leaf base where the two sides of the leaf blade are of unequal length and do not meet the petiole at the same place.
- E. obliqua was published in 1788-89, which coincided with the first official European settlement of Australia.
- From the turn of the 19th century, several more species of Eucalyptus were named and published. Most of these were by the English botanist James Edward Smith and most were trees of the Sydney region.
- In the 20th century, scientists around the world experimented with the Eucalyptus species and they hoped to grow them in tropic.