On 29/1/08 16:25, in article
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On Jan 29, 3:51*pm, wrote:

Can you describe the leaves - are they round or long, do they turn red
in the autumn and do you get little pompom white flowers in the spring
and finally is the bark dark or does it peel off at places.


It certainly looks like the images of gunni: round leaves, silvery
with a tinge of red at times. Don't recall seeing any flowers on it.
I will have a look at it when I get home.

It seems the most probable, I'd say, only because it's the best known. Of
course, that in itself isn't conclusive! The flowers are silvery and leave
cup shaped fruit. You *might* have Eucalyptus cinerea, the silver dollar
gum, but that's pretty unusual.


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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

On 29/1/08 17:34, in article
, "Sacha"
wrote:

On 29/1/08 16:25, in article
,
" wrote:

On Jan 29, 3:51*pm, wrote:

Can you describe the leaves - are they round or long, do they turn red
in the autumn and do you get little pompom white flowers in the spring
and finally is the bark dark or does it peel off at places.


It certainly looks like the images of gunni: round leaves, silvery
with a tinge of red at times. Don't recall seeing any flowers on it.
I will have a look at it when I get home.

It seems the most probable, I'd say, only because it's the best known. Of
course, that in itself isn't conclusive! The flowers are silvery and leave
cup shaped fruit. You *might* have Eucalyptus cinerea, the silver dollar
gum, but that's pretty unusual.

Just in case you don't see my other post about Eucalyptus perriniana, you
might like to look that one up on Google images, too.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

On Jan 29, 6:01*pm, Sacha wrote:
It seems the most probable, I'd say, only because it's the best known. *Of
course, that in itself isn't conclusive! * The flowers are silvery and leave
cup shaped fruit. *You *might* have Eucalyptus cinerea, the silver dollar
gum, but that's pretty unusual.

Just in case you don't see my other post about Eucalyptus perriniana, you
might like to look that one up on Google images, too.


I've googled E perriniana and E cinerea and it's definitely neither of
those.

I went out to have a look and it has some rounder leaves with a tinge
of red, but some of the leaves are more of a narrow oval.
The bark is smooth and peeling. I looked at a photo of the E gunni
flowers, and I really don't think it's ever flowered.
It's in a south/east facing position.

I must admit, I'm beginning to think it's time to get someone to bring
it under control. If it's going to continue growing much more, it
does seem to be rather too close (and you can bet if it goes over, it
will be into my neighbour's house!)

Thanks for all your responses, much appreciated
Jo

On 29/1/08 20:32, in article
,
" wrote:

On Jan 29, 6:01*pm, Sacha wrote:
It seems the most probable, I'd say, only because it's the best known. *Of
course, that in itself isn't conclusive! * The flowers are silvery and leave
cup shaped fruit. *You *might* have Eucalyptus cinerea, the silver dollar
gum, but that's pretty unusual.

Just in case you don't see my other post about Eucalyptus perriniana, you
might like to look that one up on Google images, too.


I've googled E perriniana and E cinerea and it's definitely neither of
those.

I went out to have a look and it has some rounder leaves with a tinge
of red, but some of the leaves are more of a narrow oval.
The bark is smooth and peeling. I looked at a photo of the E gunni
flowers, and I really don't think it's ever flowered.
It's in a south/east facing position.

It may not get enough sun/light hours to flower, so don't worry about that.

I must admit, I'm beginning to think it's time to get someone to bring
it under control. If it's going to continue growing much more, it
does seem to be rather too close (and you can bet if it goes over, it
will be into my neighbour's house!)

They take to cutting back pretty well and IME, they grow fast.

Thanks for all your responses, much appreciated
Jo

Hope it's all been of some help.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

Identifying eucalyptus is difficult. On the one hand, they are all a bit the same, and other other hand individual species are very variable. Gunnii itself is very variable. Then there is the problem that many of them have different shape leaves at different stages of their life, and may revert to juvenile leaves if you cut them back hard. At the end of the day, you often need to see flowers and seed capsules to be sure, and yours hasn't flowered.
Here's a good place to have a look through hardy eucalyptus types.
http://www.angelfire.com/bc/eucalyptus/
But unfortunately there are a lot of them, though only a few of them are commonly grown in Britain, especially gunnii, globulus, archeri, perriniana, nipophila, pauciflora, to a lesser degree debeuzevillei, coccifera, gregsoniana, rodwayi, delegatensis, dalrympleana, crenulata, subcrenulata, etc, etc. Though the three I have in my garden are none of those... Frankly if it is anything like one of the first few in that list, it probably is.