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SECTION III . 
GROUPING AND DESCRIPTION 
OF SPECIES. 
CLIMATIC GROUPING AND DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
OF SPECIES NOW GROWING IN NEW ZEALAND AND 
OF SOME OTHER SPECIES SUITABLE 
FOR INTRODUCTION. 
Selected List of 70 Species. 
EXPLANATORY NOTE. 
The grouping here presented is based partly upon the natural distribution of 
the genus in Australia and Tasmania, partly upon experience gained with a 
large number of species in New Zealand, and partly upon results in the growing 
of Eucalyptus trees as reported from California, North and South Africa, and 
India. In respect to temperatures found acceptable to the several species, there 
are very few exact records. Careful inference has had to take the place of such 
records. In details the scheme is necessarily tentative. Further research and 
experiment may show where the range of temperatures might be restricted or 
extended, and where certain species might be more appropriately placed in other 
groups. But the scheme as it stands will serve as a general guide to the planter, 
and in careful hands will prevent the recurrence of costly errors in selecting and 
distributing eucalypts for cultivation in this country. The descriptive information 
is not in any way dependent upon the grouping. 
GROUP I. 
Species adapted to localities where frostless or almost frostless winters are 
followed by long hot summers. Estimated range in mean annual temperature 
for successful cultivation, 59° to 64° Fahrenheit and over. Probable limit of 
vigorous resistance to cold for seedlings and young saplings, between 28° and 
33° F. 
E. calophylla. 
E. citriodora. 
E. cornuta. 
E. maculata. 
E. marginata. 
E. patens. 
E. corymbosa. 
E. gomphocephala. 
E. propinqua. 
E. tessellaris. 
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