Eucalyptus, a Wirral fresh flower delivery favourite!

 

Eucalyptus

A favourite for everyone's flowers on the wirral! 

Looks and smells great inside your bouquet of flowers delivered to your door in birkenhead, prenton, wallasey, Upton, bebington, Oxton, and the whole of the Wirral. 

Common name: eucalyptus, gum tree

Scientific name: Eucalyptus sp.

Family: Myrtaceae

Lets learn abit about this foliage before it ends up in your beautiful bouquet of flowers delivery. Eucalyptus can vary in form from a short shrub to a tall, evergreen tree. The bark is a blue-grey colour and peels off in strips to reveal yellow patches underneath. young leaves that are usually stemless and rounded. Adult leaves are long and stalked. When crushed, leaves have a distinctive smell. Flowers look like tassels of stamens, opening a year after buds are formed.

Identified in winter by: its evergreen leaves which are present year-round.

Leaves

Best identified by the blue-green adult leaves that are long and slender and hang downwards from single stalks. Juvenile leaves on younger trees are blue, round and unstalked. Eucalyptus oil comes from the adult leaves which secrete the unmistakable scent when crushed. Lots of our Wirral flowers customers love the shapes and colours of the leaves inside their bouquet delivery, to give them that cool toned flower aesthetic. 

Flowers

Flower buds are cone-shaped and grouped together in sets of three on short stalks. Each bud has a round cap on top called the calyptus, which falls off to reveal the fluffy white or red flower stamens that are so attractive to bees.

Two of the most common species of eucalyptus in the UK – the cider gum (Eucalyptus gunnii) and the Tasmanian blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) which is the main source of eucalyptus oil.

Value to wildlife

Eucalyptus attracts bees and other pollinating insects. Leaves have a high level of essential oils which are difficult for most other animals to process.

Mythology and symbolism

Australian indigenous populations use eucalyptus for spiritual cleansing. Eucalyptus oil is widely known for its medicinal properties.

Eucalyptus leaves have a high level of essential oils.

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