The Lemon Eucalyptus of Winchester Park

Crush a leaf of this one and your hands smell of citronella for the rest of the afternoon. The lemon-scented gum of Queensland, listed by the state register as Eucalyptus citriodora and by most botanists now as Corymbia citriodora, is the biggest tree on this whole Las Vegas list by every figure that was taken: 92 inches around, 84 feet tall and 64 feet across when the Nevada Big Tree Register recorded it in 2015. Eighty-four feet is a serious tree in any city. In a valley where almost all the shade is engineered, a smooth pale trunk going up that far behind Desert Inn Road is not what anyone expects from a county park. The same caution applies as to its two neighbours. The figures are eleven years old, the last independent reference we have found is a 2016 article counting three champions at this park without naming them, and the July 2025 windstorm cost the valley a lot of mature trees. We publish it because it should be there and because one local visit answers the question we cannot. No age is recorded. Eucalypts grow fast enough that a guess from girth would be worse than an empty field, so the field stays empty. The pin is the park, shared with the coolibah and the xylosma.