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Family: Myrtaceae	Genus: Eucalyptus	Species: Eucalyptus tereticornis Sm.( सफेदा )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Eucalyptus insignis Naudin, Eucalyptus populifolia Desf., Eucalyptus tereticornis var. pruiniflora (Blakely) Cameron, Eucalyptus umbellata var. pruiniflora Blakely.	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Safeda	Flower Type	Umbel
English / Trade Name	Mysore-gum, Chikkaballapur eucalyptus, Eucalyptus hybrid, Forest red gum, Forest river gum, Horn-cap eucalyptus, Blue gum, Mysore hybrid, Nandi hybrid, Queensland blue gum, Red iron gum, Slaty-gum	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name	Safeda	Fruiting Period	July-Sept
Altitude	Up to 1100m	Fruit Type	Capsule
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Fruit or seed capsules several, half round or top shaped, with raised disc and prominent rim, opening with 4-5 raised teeth curving inward; seeds many, tiny, dark brown to black.
Habitat	It occurs over a wide range of climatic conditions, and principally in open-forest formation with a number of other eucalypts and on river flats or hill slopes with alluvial or sandy to gravelly soils.	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	Native of Australia and Australia, Papua New Guinea, cultivated across the tropics (Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Fiji, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mozambique,	Bark Details	Bark smooth, whitish, peeling in irregular thin sheets or large flakes, becoming mottled with white, grey or bluish patches, often some rough, dark grey bark at base; twigs reddish to yellowish-green
Distribution in Haryana	Ambala, Bhiwani, Faridabad, Fatehabad, Gurgaon, Hisar, Jhajjar, Jind, Kaithal, Karnal, Kurukshetra, M. Garh, Mewat, Morni-Pinjore, Palwal, Panipat, Rewari, Rohtak, Sirsa, Sonepat, Yamuna Nagar	Origin	Exotic
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Lence shaped
Description of Species	Evergreen, up to 30 m tall, crown large, open or fairly dense, variable; bark smooth, whitish, peeling in irregular thin sheets or large flakes, becoming mottled with white, grey or bluish patches, often some rough, dark grey bark at base; twigs reddish to yellowish-green. Leaves alternate, drooping on slender leaf stalks, narrowly lance shaped, often curved, long pointed at tip, hairless, slightly thickened, shiny green on both surfaces. Flower clusters (umbel) single at leaf base with half-rounded base and long, narrow, conical, hornlike lid. Fruit or seed capsules several, half round or top shaped, with raised disc and prominent rim, opening with 4-5 raised teeth curving inward; seeds many, tiny, dark brown to black.	Leaf Details	Leaves alternate, drooping on slender leaf stalks, narrowly lance shaped, often curved, long pointed at tip, hairless, slightly thickened, shiny green on both surfaces.

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