Posted by Bianchi Pierre-France-Z9 on 4/17/2009, 6:00 am, in reply to "Silver-leaved Eucalyptus... in bloom!"
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In the Fnench Eucalypt pulp industry xgundal is suposed to be the best
for the South-West of France ( USDA Z 8a ).Are there others hybrids for timber or pulp which can grow in Z8b or Z9a ?
By chance i am growing 2 hybrids in my garden : the first one had been labelled E. Dalrympleana ,the juvenile leaves looked like dalrympleana but its adult leaves remain glaucous lanceolate and rather short ;it has never blossomed although it is 10 meters high and more than 10 years old . I think it a gundal or something like that .I made the second : i took the seeds from a E.cordata in a Eucalypts' garden , but was disapointed by the juvenile leaves not so blue or wide than the parent's ones ,a bit like E. viminalis but more glaucous and larger . I went back to the Eucalypts' garden :the cordata was growing side by side with a viminalis and here the flowering time is about the same ... This one is about 8m high and 7 years old , it is vigourous but our summers are quite dry there close to the Mediterrannean ; it has never flowered .
Are Eucalypts hybrids sterile ?
Pierre
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