Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_eucalyptus_grandis
Flooded Gum
Eucalyptus grandis
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About Flooded Gum
Flooded Gum (Eucalyptus grandis) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. Native to eastern Australian moist forest, wet sclerophyll forest and rainforest margins; generic cultivated clearing reconstruction. A government forestry ledger compiled in 1980 documents Eucalyptus grandis planted on Kauaʻi in 1957, 1958, 1959. Historical planting evidence only; current survival, naturalization, abundance, recruitment, and ecological effects remain unconfirmed. Public occurrence is island-level only.
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 6 plants under Eucalyptus grandis across 1 entries dated 1958. 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
- Eucalyptus grandis
- Common names
- Flooded Gum
- Other names
- Eucalyptus grandis · Flooded Gum
- 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
- Present survival, naturalization, abundance, occupied habitat, population trend and ecological effects on Kauaʻi are unconfirmed.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Bisexual white flowers, small woody seed capsules. Seedling cotyledons deeply bilobed; no conifer pollen or seed cones. No Kauaʻi-specific phenology or recruitment inferred.
- 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
- Flooded Gum (Eucalyptus grandis) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. Native to eastern Australian moist forest, wet sclerophyll forest and rainforest margins; generic cultivated clearing reconstruction. A government forestry ledger compiled in 1980 documents Eucalyptus grandis planted on Kauaʻi in 1957, 1958, 1959. Historical planting evidence only; current survival, naturalization, abundance, recruitment, and ecological effects remain unconfirmed. Public occurrence is island-level only.
Sources and further reading
- https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/eucalyptus_grandis.htm
- https://apps.lucidcentral.org/plants_se_nsw/text/entities/eucalyptus_grandis.htm
- https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?lvl=gn&name=Eucalyptus&page=nswfl
- https://research.fs.usda.gov/download/treesearch/47617.pdf