Eucalypt

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Eucalypts are woody plants belonging to three closely related genera: Eucalyptus, Corymbia and Angophora.

The eucalypts are primarily Australasian in distribution.

In 1995 new evidence, largely genetic, indicated that some prominent Eucalyptus species were actually more closely related to Angophora than to the other eucalypts; they were split off into the new genus Corymbia. Although separate, the three groups are allied and it remains acceptable to refer to the members of all three genera Angophora, Corymbia and Eucalyptus as "eucalypts".