Ancient Eucalyptus featured

Eucalyptus, Natural Bridges State Beach, California

 The October 2015 Land for Wildlife South East Queensland newsletter features a summary of a 2012 paper on Eucalyptus from the early Eocene (ca. 52 million-year-old) Laguna del Hunco flora of Patagonia, Argentina, by Doug Mohr. I co-authored the original study, which was featured in the August 2012 issue of American Journal of Botany, with María A. Gandolfo of Cornell University and María del Carmen Zamaloa of the Universidad de Buenos Aires. 

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