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Eucalyptus trees - when do they smell?

JustJack

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I loved the smell of the eucalyptus trees when I was walking through them last June. For those that are very familiar, do they only give off a scent during certain months?

I’ll be back there soon, but I’ll be in Galicia a month earlier this year and wondering if I’ll be able to smell them again.
 
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From my experience they are aromatic pretty much year round. I am sure some of the Aussies can give more details but I when I lived in Sydney during the summer when they would oozed sap and if there was a heat wave they would spontaneously combust and create bush fires.
 
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You can read about the Benedictine monk Rosendo Salvado who brought the euclyptus to Galicia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosendo_Salvado
There is a statue of him in Tui, his hometown but also a road named after him in Santiago - Fray Rosendo Salvado Street. There is a Camino Salvado in Australia.
 
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I read on internet that eucalyptus smell different depending on the type. In Galicia there two: mainly Globulus in the coast and Nintens mainly in the inner ( because is more resistant to low temperatures). I think that Globulus smells more than Nintens but I didn't find anything on Internet to confirm that point.
 
Interesting, I didn't know about that, and I suspect not many Australians know about it, certainly not those of us over east.

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He founded the monastery at New Norcia, in Western Australia.
 
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They are aromatic, more so in hot weather, of course. In the days before airconditioned airports, when one walked down stairs from the aircraft, returning travellers could smell they were home.
The Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, have a blue haze about them, caused by eucalytus oil droplets and dust and sunlight action, hence their name (originally named the Carmarthen Hills, by an early governor).
Fortunately for those of us who live here, eucalyptus trees do not self combust, but they do burn readily if fire is applied. Fires will 'crown' that is, ignite rapidly through the upper foliage before the lower sections of the tree and a bush fire like that is a difficult fire to control.
 
We've been there several time in the fall and they've always smelled wonderfull.
 
I love the smell of eucalyptus after the rain - particularly the lemon scented gum
 
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