“…while we think of eucalypts as being uniquely Australian, there are also a handful of species in New Guinea, Timor, Sulewesi and even one species — the rainbow gum (Eucalyptus deglupta) — on the Philippine island of Mindanao.”

Read about this and other curiosities of ‘gum trees’, as Australians commonly call them for the gum exuded on their trunks, in the following authoritative article by our Australian government national broadcasting body:

Eucalypts: 10 things you may not know about an iconic Australian

La maggior parte delle specie di eucalipto sono native dell'Australia, un numero molto piccolo si trova nelle aree adiacenti della Nuova Guinea e dell'Indonesia. Una specie, l'Eucalyptus deglupta, si estende a nord fino alle Filippine.