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  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›Dicots
  5. ›myrtles, evening primroses, and allies
  6. ›myrtle family
  7. ›Myrtoideae
  8. ›gum trees
  9. ›Eucalyptus
Monocalypts
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Monocalypts

Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus (/ˌjuːkəˈlɪptəs/) is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. Most species of Eucalyptus are trees, often mallees, and a few are shrubs. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including Corymbia and Angophora, they are commonly known as eucalypts or "gum trees". Species of Eucalyptus have bark that is either smooth, fibrous, hard, or stringy and leaves that have oil glands. The sepals and petals are...

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