Editing Eucalypt (section)

== Adaptations ==
[[File:CSIRO ScienceImage 10646 Eucalypt regrowth after Black Saturday bushfires.jpg|thumb|[[Epicormic shoot|Epicormic regrowth]] from eucalypt bark, four months after [[Black Saturday bushfires]], [[Strathewen, Victoria]]]]

Eucalypts from fire-prone habitats are attuned to withstand fire in several ways:{{cn|date=October 2023}}
* Their seeds are often held in an insulated capsule, which opens only after a [[Bushfires in Australia|bushfire]]. Once cooled down, the land becomes a freshly fertilised seed bed.
* Oils in the leaves tend to make the fire more severe and therefore more damaging to less attuned species, giving an evolutionary advantage to the eucalypts.
[[Epicormic shoot|Epicormic buds]] under the often thick [[Bark (botany)|bark]] of the [[Trunk (botany)|trunk]] and [[branch]]es are ready to sprout new [[Plant stem|stem]]s and [[leaf|leaves]] after a fire.{{cn|date=October 2023}}

These advantages work well in areas affected by long dry spells.{{cn|date=October 2023}}

Over 700 eucalypt species dominate landscapes all over Australia, but diversity is reduced in rainforests and arid environments.

A fungal [[plant pathogen]] (from the family [[Sporocadaceae]]), ''[[Allelochaeta|Allelochaeta brevilata]]'' {{Au|(H.J. Swart & D.A. Griffiths) Crous}} is found on species of eucalypts in Australia.<ref name="Crous2019">{{cite journal |last1=Crous |first1=P. W. |last2=Wingfield |first2=M. J. |last3=Cheewangkoon |first3=R. |last4=Carnegie |first4=A. J. |last5=Burgess |first5=T. I. |last6=Summerell |first6=B. A. |last7=Edwards |first7=J. |last8=Taylor |first8=P. W. J. |last9=Groenewald |first9=J. Z. |title=Foliar pathogens of eucalypts |journal=Stud Mycol |date=August 2019 |volume=8 |issue=94 |pages=125–298 |doi=10.1016/j.simyco.2019.08.001|pmid=31636729 |pmc=6797021 }}</ref>