Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree 彩虹桉树 @Enabling Village

Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree 彩虹桉树 @Enabling Village  (2022 0416)

Scientific name        Eucalyptus deglupta

Family Name:          Myrtaceae

Synonyms:    Eucalyptus multiflora, Eucalyptus naudiniana, Eucalyptus schlechteri

Common Name:     Mindanao Gum, Rainbow Eucalyptus, Rainbow Gum, Kamarere, Deglupta, Bagras

FLORAL (ANGIOSPERM)

Flower Colour(s)      White

Girth   3.1

Height           25 meters

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 of Papua New Guinea has 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: Enabling Village (5 Trees)

Address: 20 Lengkok Bahru, Singapore 159053

Getting There:

MRT Redhill (EW18) Exit and cross Tiong Bahru Road and walk along Tiong Road to Lengkok Bahru Road.