In 1906, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad purchased an 8,650-acre tract of land called Rancho San Dieguito, in order to plant eucalyptus trees to use as railroad ties. By 1909, the railroad ...

With the spring and onset of summer comes the return of the lerp psyllid insect to Rancho Santa Fe’s trees, an insect that eats up red gum eucalyptus foliage and leaves behind a big mess. The weather ...

The hated Tasmanian blue gum tree - better known as a variety of eucalyptus - has been blamed for virtually every evil short of snatching babies out of strollers, but its species can never be removed ...

Maybe they’re just not in the mood. There’s a puzzling snag in an ambitious plan to use Australian wasps to kill off a rapidly spreading bug that is literally sucking the life out of eucalyptus trees ...

thin, it’s not your gardening skills and you’re not alone. Some 3,380 red gum eucalyptus trees in Huntington Beach -- 1,500 in Central Park alone -- are infested with a 3-millimeter-long insect that ...

This 50-foot red gum eucalyptus tree in front of Urth Caffe was infected with insects and had root problems. Once slated for removal, the city will see if treatments over the summer will save the tree ...

Eucalyptus have gotten a bad rap when, really, most of the ones that tower over homes and streets and drop limbs seemingly at will, those giants from Down Under that now and then just keel over, ...

NEWPORT BEACH – Some consider the eucalyptus a “wonder tree” for its beauty and medicinal value, while others call it the “widow maker” because of its tendency to drop branches in the summer or simply ...

A type of tree in Orange County that collapsed and killed a woman last week is being called a dangerous invader by some naturalists. The blue gum eucalyptus has a long history in California, but as ...