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Eucalyptus urophylla
Also called Timor White Gum, Anpupu, Popo
Timor mountain gum is a tall evergreen eucalyptus tree from the Lesser Sunda Islands, grown mainly as plantation timber. As a species it is not typically grown as a garden or houseplant, and the care notes below apply to its growing conditions in the wild and in plantations.
Eucalyptus urophylla, commonly known as Timor white gum, Timor mountain gum, popo or ampupu, is a species of eucalypt native to islands of the Indonesian Archipelago and Timor.
It is also common in other countries with humid and subhumid tropical climates where it is grown as plantation timber.
The species is native to the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia. It has a scattered distribution in south eastern areas. It has a scattered distribution and is known on seven islands in total; Adonara, Alor, Flores, Lembata, Pantar, Timor and Wetar. It has a natural range of around 500 kilometres (311 mi). E. urophylla has an elevation range from sea level up to around 3,000 metres (9,843 ft). It is endemic to monsoonal areas with two to eight dry months per year. It can tolerate nutrient poor soils that are damp and well aerated. Most of the soils it is found in are volcanic in origin. It often dominates in open, usually secondary montane forests where it is found on mountain slopes and in valleys. It is often found in soils based on basalt, schist and slate but rarely round limestone.
The tree is used to make a variety of products including charcoal, furniture, building poles, fenceposts, wall paneling, fibreboard pulp and paper and fuel.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eucalyptus urophylla by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
