Eucalyptus camaldulensis arida Brooker & McDonald, 2009

Verloove, Filip, 2021, New records in vascular plants alien to Tenerife (Spain, Canary Islands), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 62878-62878 : 62878

Eucalyptus camaldulensis arida Brooker & McDonald, 2009

Eucalyptus camaldulensis arida Austral. Syst. Bot. 22(4): 273. 2009.

Distribution

TENERIFE: Santiago del Teide, centre of the village, steep slope of abandoned quarry, planted and freely escaping, 14.01.2019, F. Verloove 13447 (BR). https://observation.org/observation/205256471/

Notes

Eucalyptus camaldulensis is commonly planted in the Canary Islands and relatively easily self-seeds. The plants that are usually seen have opercula which are strongly beaked; they belong to subsp. Eucalyptus camaldulensis camaldulensis . In Gran Canaria, subsp. Eucalyptus camaldulensis arida has also been recorded, although only as a planted tree. It is often found in mixed plantations with subsp. Eucalyptus camaldulensis camaldulensis ( Marrero Rodríguez 2016). It is distinguished by the mature buds that have an obtuse to rounded, not beaked, operculum.

In Santiago del Teide in Tenerife, these two subspecies are mass-planted in and on the verge of an abandoned quarry. Both are reproducing from seed.