The seven-year war against a sap-sucking insect that has ravaged eucalyptus trees in California has shifted to one of its cousins, the lemon gum psyllid, which forced Placentia this week to cut down ...

Four towering lemon-scented gum eucalyptus trees, including one deemed dead by Newport Beach city officials, will be removed from Marine Avenue on Balboa Island within the next few weeks. Six other ...

Four years after arriving from Australia, the psyllids are still snacking their way through eucalyptus groves from San Clemente to the San Fernando Valley. And as the tiny pests continue to suck the ...

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 ...

Residents on Balboa Island are gearing up for a meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 13 at Newport Beach City Hall to learn about the fate of dozens of towering eucalyptus trees that now line Marine Avenue. Some ...

View the full episode transcript. This article was first published in February 1, 2018, and was updated on April 11, 2024. Depending on whom you ask, eucalyptus trees are either an icon in California ...

Originally found in Australia, children there sing of "kookaburra in the gum tree," another name for Eucalyptus due to the gum-like resin it exudes. Eucalyptus spread from Australia, around the world, ...