Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_corymbia_maculata
Spotted Gum
Corymbia maculata
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About Spotted Gum
Spotted Gum (Corymbia maculata) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. Native to eastern New South Wales to eastern Victoria in subtropical forest and woodland. A 1980 forestry ledger documents Kauaʻi planting in 1950; it does not establish current survival, reproduction, or naturalization.
Kauaʻi evidence
Taxonomic identity, tree form, diagnostic morphology and island occurrence use the linked reviewed sources. Historical planting, cultivation, naturalization and invasive status are separate. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence. The 1918–1959 Kauaʻi reforestation working register records 290 plants under Eucalyptus maculata across 1 entries dated 1950. These are recorded planting quantities, not counts of surviving trees, and they do not by themselves establish current persistence, naturalization, or ecological impact. Source: Kauaʻi Reforestation Plantings 1918–1959 working register (user-supplied; reconciled 6 October 2026).
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Corymbia maculata
- Common names
- Spotted Gum
- Other names
- Corymbia maculata · Spotted gum · Eucalyptus maculata
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-06
- Evidence limits
- Current survival on Kauaʻi, number of trees, occupied habitat, flowering or fruiting, recruitment, population trend, and ecological effects are all unconfirmed; no naturalization or invasive severity is inferred from the historical planting record.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- White bisexual flowers are followed by woody capsules with enclosed valves and reddish-black flattened seeds. A juvenile comparison shows broader leaves and a few opposite lower pairs, then alternate foliage; this is botanical reference coverage, not Kauaʻi recruitment evidence.
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Tree
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Not yet assessed
- Data gaps
- Current population extent and trajectory · Additional species-specific ecological and conservation sources
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- Spotted Gum (Corymbia maculata) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. Native to eastern New South Wales to eastern Victoria in subtropical forest and woodland. A 1980 forestry ledger documents Kauaʻi planting in 1950; it does not establish current survival, reproduction, or naturalization.