But blue gum eucalyptus trees don't just burn, they explode, according to the article. The trees helped fuel the deadly Oakland fire in 1991, which burned more than 3,000 homes and killed 25 people.

A dramatic video shared by exclusive FOX Weather Storm Tracker Brandon Copic shows a massive tornado tearing across the ...

Blue gum trees helped spread deadly flames during the catastrophic East Bay hills fire in 1991. When they aren't in flames, they are shading out other tree species and sucking up all the available ...

‘After the 1849 Gold Rush, transpacific shipping was booming. Seeds of the Australian Blue Gum Eucalyptus from Southern Victoria and Tasmania were imported in San Francisco in 1853; by 1860 the ...

Blue gum is classified as a “moderate” invasive, putting it a tier below such uncharismatic weeds as yellow star-thistle and medusahead. McBride, the retired Berkeley professor, says “although there’s ...

Parents of a Tustin woman killed in 2011 when a 10-ton, 70-foot blue gum eucalyptus tree crushed her car each received $550,000 in a settlement agreement with the city of Newport Beach, officials ...

Eucalyptus trees reflect in the canal at the Sweet Springs Nature Preserve. A great egret in a pond surrounded by Tasmanian blue gum at the Morro Coast Audubon Society Sweet Springs Nature Preserve.

NEWPORT BEACH – Crews today began removing 100 blue gum eucalyptus trees from a street on the Costa Mesa-Newport Beach border where a 29-year-old Tustin woman was killed when one fell on her car ...

Saratoga residents will not have to pay the city to cut down blue gum eucalyptus trees for the next 2-1/2 months. The trees did about $250,000 in reported damage during last month’s storms ...

The simple answer is that koalas do eat blue gum eucalyptus and so theoretically, it could survive in the tree for a time. In reality, there are a lot more issues to consider.