Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_corymbia_gummifera
Red Bloodwood
Corymbia gummifera
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About Red Bloodwood
Red Bloodwood (Corymbia gummifera) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. Native to subtropical eastern Australia, including dry sclerophyll forest and woodland. The Kauaʻi forestry ledger used Eucalyptus gummifera and documents a 1950 planting; no present survival, flowering, or recruitment is inferred.
Kauaʻi evidence
Taxonomic identity, tree form, diagnostic morphology and island occurrence use the linked reviewed sources. Historical planting, cultivation, naturalization and invasive status are separate. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence. The 1918–1959 Kauaʻi reforestation working register records 26 plants under Eucalyptus gummifera across 1 entries dated 1950. These are recorded planting quantities, not counts of surviving trees, and they do not by themselves establish current persistence, naturalization, or ecological impact. Source: Kauaʻi Reforestation Plantings 1918–1959 working register (user-supplied; reconciled 6 October 2026).
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Corymbia gummifera
- Common names
- Red Bloodwood
- Other names
- Corymbia gummifera · Red bloodwood · Eucalyptus gummifera
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-06
- Evidence limits
- Current survival on Kauaʻi, number of trees, occupied habitat, flowering or fruiting, recruitment, population trend, and ecological effects are all unconfirmed; no naturalization or invasive severity is inferred from the historical planting record.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- White flowers require animal pollination, and woody capsules release seeds after maturation. Kauaʻi flowering, pollinators, capsule production, seed dispersal, viability, and recruitment are unknown.
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Tree
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Not yet assessed
- Data gaps
- Current population extent and trajectory · Additional species-specific ecological and conservation sources
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- Red Bloodwood (Corymbia gummifera) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. Native to subtropical eastern Australia, including dry sclerophyll forest and woodland. The Kauaʻi forestry ledger used Eucalyptus gummifera and documents a 1950 planting; no present survival, flowering, or recruitment is inferred.