Prologue
This blog is the digital home of a project that began as a thought that arose as I was collecting firewood in a small patch of feral eucalyptus forest, beside the farmstead I was staying at in central Portugal. The thought: what the hell is all this flammable, nonnative eucalyptus doing here in the hills…
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Eucalyptus globulus Labill. Native to south-eastern Australia and a few surrounding islands, eucalyptus is a genus of some 700 different species of flowering tree and shrub. Eucalyptus globulus Labill. (hereafter eucalyptus) is the genus’s most prolific, and most cosmopolitan, pioneer, with a wider area of cultivation than any other. It is known globally as one…
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“The Tree with a Thousand Faces” started out as the title of an interlude in my thesis, one that allowed me to branch out from eucalyptus in Portugal to the genus’ more global, and globe-trotting history as one of the foremost tree plantation species of the last 250 years or so. The title drew inspiration…
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The Tree with a Thousand Faces 