Follow our establishment guidelines for good establishment success.
E. globoidea requires form pruning. Little clearwood pruning should be necessary if growing post and pole wood. For high quality sawlogs, clearwood pruning at an early age is necessary.
Read our form-pruning guidelines and watch some videos.
E. globoidea suffers less from insect and possum browse than some other eucalypt species.
Summer/autumn flowering but with one winter record (Marlborough). Flowers regularly and yields good quantities of pollen and but not so much nectar. Good flavoured amber honey.
Research by successful PhD candidate Serajis Selakin led to the development of some early growth models for E. globoidea:
Hybrid growth models for E. globoidea and E. bosistoana (Salekin 2019)
Further models have since been developed - information about these is available in our Strategy document (Section 5).
Two NZDFI PhD projects at the School of Forestry are currently focusing on E. globoidea timber properties.
Note: Durability is a complex parameter; NZDFI’s research into heartwood formation will improve our understanding of factors determining durability.
Structural uses, poles and posts, crossarms, railway sleepers, vineyard and fence posts. Also has potential as a flooring and furniture timber.
NZDFI anticipates E.globoidea will be highly suited as a component of high strength engineered wood products such as laminated veneer lumber (LVL) and cross laminated timber (CLT).
Watch this powerpoint presentation about research into E. globoidea's veneer potential.
E. globoidea has a wide natural range through eastern New South Wales except the far north, and eastern Victoria except in areas where summers are too cool. It is found at altitudes of 0-1100 metres.
E. globoidea was selected for the NZDFI breeding programme based on its consistent performance across a range of sites.
There is considerable experience with E. globoidea on milder areas in New Zealand, where it has grown well for many decades. It is not a fast initial grower but it is a consistent grower.
Form is generally good although on fertile sites there may be a propensity to form double leaders.
E. globoidea is performing well in early NZDFI trials (2003-04 plantings) in Marlborough and Canterbury, and various other trial plantings.
E globoidea is a leading species in NZDFI’s breeding programme. NZDFI has established over 160 families for intensive genetic improvement over the next few years. There had been no genetic improvement of this species before the NZDFI programme.
Read more about our breeding programme here.
| E. globoidea wood properties | NZ plantation timber | Australian native timber |
| Shrinkage | Tangential 4.5 % | Tangential - N/A |
| Radial 2.6 % | Radial - N/A | |
| Density | 805 kg/m 3 | 880 kg/m 3 |
| Hardness | 6.9 kN | 8.8 kN |
| Bending strength | 132 MPa | 133 MPa |
| Compression strength | 67 MPa | 68 MPa |
E. globoidea flowers and buds.
E. globoidea seed capsules and flowering buds.
E. globoidea seed capsules.
Two tui in young E. globoidea tree.
7 yr old E. globoidea in NZDFI trial in Hawkes Bay.
A prolifically flowering E. globoidea.
25 year old E globoidea, Banks Peninsula.
27 yr old E globoidea, Bay of Plenty.
Stock yards built using E globoidea in Gisborne.
E. globoidea posts in use in a vineyard.