Eucalyptus Leaf

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Eucalyptus leaf (Eucalyptus globulus)

Latin Name: Eucalyptus globulus
Common Names: Eucalyptus leaf

If your parents treated your cold with Vick's Vaporub when you were a child, you know the powerful and pungent scent of eucalyptus leaf, which also goes by the scientific name eucalyptus globulus and colloquially as the "blue gum tree." Although all species of eucalyptus are native to Australia, not all have been successfully cultivated outside of that country or have been equal usefulness as medicinal herbs; eucalyptus globulus however is the most widely cultivated species outside of Australia, and virtually all dried eucalyptus leaf comes from this species. (It has in fact become an invasive species in California.)