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Watch First eucalyptus tree brought to Ethiopia by Emperor Menelik on WongelTube.com The first eucalyptus tree in Ethiopia still exists in the Entoto palace of Emperor Menelik in Addis Ababa. The palace is owned by Ethiopian orthodox Tewahido (Tewahedo)St. Mary church (aka Entoto kidist Mariyam church). Further explanation of the history taken from wikipedia is given below.
Ethiopia. Eucalyptus was introduced to Ethiopia in either 1894 or 1895, either by Emperor Menelik II’s French advisor Mondon-Vidailhet or by the Englishman Captain O’Brian. Menelik II endorsed its planting around his new capital city of Addis Ababa because of the massive deforestation around the city for firewood. According to Richard R.K. Pankhurst, “The great advantage of the eucalypts was that they were fast growing, required little attention and when cut down grew up again from the roots; it could be harvested every ten years. The tree proved successful from the onset”.[59] Plantations of eucalypts spread from the capital to other growing urban centres such as Debre Marqos. Pankhurst reports that the most common species found in Addis Ababa in the mid-1960s was E. globulus, although he also found E. melliodora and E. rostrata in significant numbers. David Buxton, writing of central Ethiopia in the mid-1940s, observed that eucalyptus trees “have become an integral — and a pleasing — element in the Shoan landscape and has largely displaced the slow-growing native ‘cedar’ Juniperus procera).”[60]
It was commonly believed that the thirst of the Eucalyptus “tended to dry up rivers and wells”, creating such opposition to the species that in 1913 a proclamation was issued ordering a partial destruction of all standing trees, and their replacement with mulberry trees. Pankhurst reports, “The proclamation however remained a dead letter; there is no evidence of eucalypts being uprooted, still less of mulberry trees being planted.”[61] Eucalypts remain a defining feature of Addis Ababa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus
For other uses, see Eucalyptus (disambiguation).
Eucalyptus /ˌjuːkəˈlɪptəs/[2] L’Heritier 1789[3] is a diverse genus of flowering trees and shrubs (including a distinct group with a multiple-stem mallee growth habit) in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia. There are more than 700 species of eucalyptus and most are native to Australia, and a very small number are found in adjacent areas of New Guinea andIndonesia. One species, Eucalyptus deglupta, ranges as far north as the Philippines. Only 15 species occur outside Australia, with just nine of these not occurring in Australia. Species of eucalyptus are cultivated widely in the tropical and temperate world, including the Americas,Europe, Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East, China, and the Indian subcontinent.
Eucalyptus is one of three similar genera that are commonly referred to as “eucalypts”, the others being Corymbia and Angophora. Many species, though by no means all, are known as gum trees because they exude copious kino from any break in the bark (e.g., scribbly gum). The generic name is derived from the Greek words ευ (eu) “well” and καλύπτω (kalýpto) “to cover”, referring to the operculum on the calyx that initially conceals the flower.[4]
Some eucalyptus species have attracted attention from horticulturists, global development researchers, and environmentalists because of desirable traits such as being fast-growing sources of wood, producing oil that can be used for cleaning and as a natural insecticide, or an ability to be used to drain swamps and thereby reduce the risk of malaria. Eucalyptus oil finds many uses like in aromatherapy, as a cure for joint pains. Eucalyptus trees show allelopathic effects; they release compounds which inhibit other plant species from growing nearby. Outside their natural ranges, eucalypts are both lauded for their beneficial economic impact on poor populations[5][6]:22 and criticised for being “water-guzzling” aliens,[7] leading to controversy over their total impact.[8]
On warm days, eucalyptus forests are sometimes shrouded in a smog-like mist of vaporised volatile organic compounds (terpenoids); the Australian Blue Mountains take their name from the haze.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus
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