Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree 彩虹桉树 @Upper Serangoon Road

Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree 彩虹桉树 @Upper Serangoon Road (2022 0330)

Scientific name           Eucalyptus deglupta

Common name          Mindanao Gum

Girth   3.1

Height             25

 

Commonly known as the Rainbow eucalyptus, Mindanao gum, or rainbow gum.

Native to the Philippines, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.

A huge evergreen tree that can grow up to 60m in its native enviroment. Trunk is straight, sometimes with buttresses. Bark is smooth, yellow, brown, and purple but green immediately after flaking off. Leaves are lanceolate in shape when young and become more rounded when older. Flowers occur in spike-like clusters, cream to pale-green in colour. Fruits hemispherical in shape with 3-4 valves, dark brown in colour, containing tiny flattened seeds with a small wing.

This beautiful tree distinctive peeling bark with multi-coloured streaks. Why are there so many colours? This is because the patches of outer bark are shed at different times, showing the bright-green inner bark which matures to give blue, purple, orange and then maroon tones.

Locate: Along Blk 477A Upper Serangoon Road (14 Trees, 2more at Block 477A)

Getting There:

MRT Buangkok (NE15)/ Buangkok Stn Exit B Stop ID: 67601 board bus 102 and alight at Blk 477A, Upp Serangoon Rd