Blue Gum Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus) first producing their sickle-shaped adult leaves after about two and a half years of growth.
Adult sickle-shaped leaves produced: Summer 2004 update: 12 August 2004. After fruitlessly searching through the Internet to find the age that Blue Gums first produced their adult sickle-shaped leaves, I went outside and looked up at the top branches of my tallest Blue Gum tree (about 15 feet high now) and noticed some small sickle-shaped adult leaves growing at the tips of the top several branches. So it takes about two and a half years for Blue Gums to produce their first few adult leaves.
6 March 2005: the Blue Gums are almost three years old now; the tallest one (approaching twenty feet high) is producing new mid-green-colored sickle-shaped adult leaves now (instead of the bluish sickle-shaped leaves of last summer). These small leaves also glisten in the reflected sunlight: probably from their oil content.
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