Hi David >Was there a research breakthrough on the propagation of E. camaldulensis >in the 1970s? Yes. That's right. >I'm reading about the spread of E. camaldulensis plantations in the late >1970s & have come across a reference suggesting that the timing was related >to the availability of a "cheap supply of seeds ... from Australia". The reasons for increased availability of provenance seed of this species came about as a result of an intensive tree seed collection program iniated by the Botany and Seeds Section of the Forest Research Institute at Canberra, now the Australian Tree Seed Centre, CSIRO Div. of Forest Research, in the mid 1960's. The first major collections were of E. citriodora and its sibling species E. maculata. This was followed by E. camaldulensis and between 1965-70 the principal provenances were sampled. More have been added since. From these collections seed was made available to research organisations on request. Egon Larson started this program and I joined him in 1966 until 1969. He planned a major paper on the morphological variation of the species, but this was never finished as he was killed on a collection trip seeking E. deglupta in the Celebes. I studied the chemotaxonomy of the species resulting in one paper before moving on into academia and research into other aspects of the genus. _____________________________________________________________________ Dr John Banks Email: John.Banks@anu.edu.au Forestry Dept tel: +61 62 249 3632 Australian National University fax: +61 62 249 0746 Canberra 2601
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