🎉To celebrate #NationalTreeDay, here are the winners of our 2026 Photography Competition, "#OurEucalyptHome"! - Clockwise from left - 🥇 Naidu Kumapatla 🥈 Marianne Broug 🥉 Geoff Murray

Have fun out there and don't forget to tune in at 3pm for the results of our 2026 photo competition – Our Eucalypt Home! eucalyptaustralia.org.au/photo-compet...

#NationalTreeDay is here, and whether you're planting big, small, at home or in your community, we want to thank you! For digging in and giving back, for growing a home for all of us – the human and non-human. 🌳: A magnificent Yellow Box (Eucalyptus melliodora) in Central Victoria.

It's almost time to announce the winner of our photography competition for 2026 - #OurEucalyptHome! So here's another batch of the fantastic entries we have received! Join us Sunday afternoon on National Tree Day when we announce the winners! 📸: D Parkes, M Broug, G Wolzak & M Moir

#DYK almost any eucalypt can be kept in a pot! This one is a Jingymia Mallee, Eucalyptus synandra. In general, potted plants are more vulnerable to drying out, overheating or freezing. So position your pot somewhere sheltered & convenient for regular watering. More detail on our IG and FB #LoveAGum

Are you an Australian-based researcher working on #eucalypts? Apply for our 2027 Research Grants of up to $25,000 per annum for up to two years. https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/grants/ Applications close 11th August. 📸: Current Research Grant awardee Dr Shu Tong Liu, University of WA

Pretty little mauve flowers of the Port Lincoln Mallee, AKA Purple-flowered Mallee, Eucalyptus albopurpurea. Once thought to be a subspecies of the Crimson Mallee, Eucalyptus lansdowneana, the Port Lincoln Mallee differs in its white, pink or purple flowers and larger, bushier habit.

National Tree Day is just two weeks away! This year, our friends at Planet Ark and National Tree Day are celebrating 30 years of Australia's largest tree planting event! https://nationaltreeday.org.au Tell us how you are getting involved ⬇️

📢 Calling all community groups 📢 could your eucalypt-focused project do with a $5K funding boost? Apply now for one of our Community Grants! https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/grants/ #LoveAGum #OurEucalyptHome #fundingopportunities

Wondering if your idea would suit one of our $25,000 Dahl Fellowships? We've funded everything from podcasts to field-guides, YouTube series to scientific, historic & artistic research, art exhibitions, craft explorations & citizen science projects. Details: eucalyptaustralia.org.au/fellowships/

Pedicellate gumnuts (left) are connected to a group (AKA umbel or inflorescence) stalk (AKA peduncle) by individual stalks (AKA pedicels) and hang freely from one another. Sessile gumnuts (right) lack pedicels and are instead attached directly to the group stalk. #LoveAGum

Calling all creatives, educators, researchers and community groups – gum-loving ones, that is! Applications for our 2027 Grants and Fellowships programs are open until 11th August. Fellowships: https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/fellowships/ Grants: https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/grants/

Last chance: How would you capture Our Eucalypt Home? Enter our photography competition up to three times for your chance to win $300! https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/photo-competition-gallery/ #LoveAGum #naturephotography #photographycompetition #photocomp #LoveAGum #australiannature

There are just a few days left to enter our photo competition for your chance to win $300! Anyone in Australia can enter up to 3 photos, using any camera, in any orientation! Details: https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/photo-competition-gallery/ Check out this beautiful entry from Mark Johnston!

#FlowersOnFriday: Fluffy pink blossoms burst from silver-frosted buds 😍 It's flowering time for one of Australia's darlings! The lithe and graceful Silver Princess (Eucalyptus caesia). These beauties were photographed by australian_flora_fauna on Instagram. #LoveAGum

🌿Just one week left to get your photos in for our 2026 photo competition - Our Eucalypt Home! 🥇$300 1st Prize 🥈$200 2nd Prize 🥉$100 3rd Prize Enter here: https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/photo-competition-gallery/

#FlowersOnFriday: Thank you @sally.b.photography for tagging us in this unreal collection of buttery blossoms! 🤤 #DYK white, cream, & yellow flowers are easiest for many insects like beetles, bees & flies to spot? They reflect a wide spectrum of light & stand out brightly against darker leaves.

‼️ Only 2 weeks left to enter the Eucalypt Australia Photo Competition! This year's theme is Our Eucalypt Home. Share your favourite eucalypt photo and help celebrate Australia's iconic trees. Entries close 30 June. https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/photo-competition-gallery/ 📸: Barry Baker

🌿 2027 Grants & Fellowships Now Open! 🌿 Eucalypt Australia is excited to announce our 2027 grants & fellowships supporting work that celebrates, protects, & expands knowledge of eucalypts! Grants: https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/grants/ Fellowships: https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/fellowships/

🌿 Funding Opportunities Open Monday! 🌿 Our 2027 grants and fellowships support work that celebrates, protects, and expands knowledge of eucalypts! Find out more: Fellowships: https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/fellowships/ Research & community grants: https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/grants/

We've received some beautiful entries to our Our Eucalypt Home photo competition! Here are just a few by Annett Boerner, Irene Proebsting & Geoff Murray. It's not too late to enter! Submit your photos by 30th June. Details: https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/photo-competition-gallery/

The Ironbark blossoms in Central Victoria are unreal at the moment, and we can't stop playing with them! These are from a local Red Ironbark (Eucalyptus tricarpa). They were coating the ground like a carpet, after the local lorikeets, rosellas and cockatoos had been through! #FlowersOnFriday

Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday tree friends! We spent Sunday afternoon celebrating the #GuildfordBiyal with the local community on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Central Victoria. Read more on our Facebook: www.facebook.com/EucalyptAus/...

The Eucalypt Australia 2026 photography competition is open! https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/photo-competition-gallery/ 🥇$300 1st Prize 🥈$200 2nd Prize 🥉$100 3rd Prize 📸 Entries close Tuesday 30th June 2026 📸: Swift Parrot in Tasmanian Blue Gum, Eucalyptus globulus, by Barry Baker.

Today is the 8th int'l Fascination of Plants Day & to celebrate we are launching our 2026 eucalypt photography competition! Details and entries here: https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/photo-competition-gallery/ 📸: Swift Parrot in Tas Blue Gum, Eucalyptus globulus, by Barry Baker. #PlantsDay2026

Discover the gums of Melbourne with Vicky Shukuroglou, author of the 🌟new🌟 ACE Guide to Eucalypts: Melbourne! On May 30th, join Vicky and the on the 2nd of 4 different walks, this one at Mt Lofty, Warrandyte State Park. https://events.humanitix.com/eucalypts-of-the-birrarung-walk-and-talk-part-2

Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday to this beautiful backyard beauty – a Narrow-leaved Peppermint, Eucalyptus nicholli. If you're caring for a big old eucalypt in your garden, thank you for your service. You are protecting a huge community asset, for people and wildlife alike. #LoveAGum #OurEucalyptHome

#FlowersOnFriday: The Silver-leaved Mountain Gum (Eucalyptus pulverulenta) is cold-hardy & tolerates a wide range of rainfall conditions. This makes it a great garden mallee for regions where the climate is too cold & wet for most small, ornamental eucalypts. It can also be kept in a large pot!

#FlowersOnFriday: The 'operculum' is a defining feature of the eucalypt genera Eucalyptus & Corymbia. Composed of fused petals, this bud cap prevents the growing flower from drying out & reduces insect damage. In contrast, Angophora species lack opercula & have rudimentary petals & sepals #LoveAGum

READ: Sophie Cunningham (@sophtree.bsky.social), esteemed writer and one of our current Dahl Fellows, has been working hard on her new book 'Eucalypts: A Story in Twenty Trees' You can now read an except from the book here: https://potter-museum.unimelb.edu.au/explore/stories-and-ideas/eucalypts