Yellow Gum Care

It prefers dry moist or wet soil and can tolerate drought.

Little pruning required on established trees. Remove damaged, diseased or crossing branches in late winter or early spring. To sustain the most attractive youthful growth, cut shoots.

It cannot grow in the shade.

Suitable for: light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils, prefers well-drained soil and can grow in heavy clay and nutritionally poor soils. Suitable pH: acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils

This species is not very hardy in Britain though it experiences frosts in the wild. Another report says that it can tolerate temperatures down to about -8°c[

Citronellal, an essential oil found in most Eucalyptus species is reported to be mutagenic when used in isolation[269]. In large doses, oil of eucalyptus, like so many essential oils has caused fatalities from intestinal irritation[269]. Death is reported from ingestion of 4 - 24 ml of essential oils, but recoveries are also reported for the same amount[269]. Symptoms include gastroenteric burning and irritation, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, oxygen deficiency, ,weakness, dizziness, stupor, difficult respiration, delirium, paralysis, convulsions, and death, usually due to respiratory failure

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