On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 7:07:30 PM UTC-7, Radey Shouman wrote:
news18 writes:

On Fri, 29 May 2020 16:39:50 -0700, cyclintom wrote:



They were SAID to grow faster than Redwoods and that is why they were
planted to replace the coastal redwoods that were cut down for
construction material. However. as you say, they are HUGE fire hazards
filling the entire area with dry sluffed off bark, their lumber is
unusuable since it shrinks and cracks with drying and that cannot be
remedied making the wood weak and useless.

Don't tell the Austalians this, they have been using them for centuries
until the modern fad for ****ty Pinus radiata in housing and everywhere
else.

Do you know which species they grow?

I don't know anything about eucalyptus species, but the description of
California eucalyptus agrees with what I've heard.

... seems they're mostly blue gum, Eucalyptus globulus:

https://www.independent.com/2011/01/...me-california/

And they really do not grow
faster than redwoods after a certain age.

There are plenty of Eucalyptus trees that have been chopped down to clear them from invading the redwood forests that are left and they too have the same cracking, shrinking and rotting that your article describes. There is a place I have named the Eucalyptus Tunnel that has these trees on either side of a road that leads to the base of Skyline Blvd (Grass Valley Rd) and have been there since that road was initially laid in the early 1900's and they have totally invaded all of the surrounding forest killing most of the native species and covering the entire area with highly flammable dry bark that is continuously sluffing off the trees and they continue to grow. They are so large that they are a clear and present danger to the adjoining homes what with their shallow and narrow root base but the locals don't want to remove them and replant native species.

Back in the deeper forest the only things that seem to survive the Eucalyptus is the poison oak and poison ivy.