Seville's tallest tree is also one of its least visited, despite standing in the middle of the historic centre.
River Red Gum
Eucalyptus camaldulensis
Seville and the province of Valencia each have a record holder for height, and both are the same Australian tree, growing thousands of kilometres from where it belongs. We map 11 of them, in 7 cities.
Eucalyptus camaldulensis follows the seasonal rivers of inland Australia across almost the whole continent, surviving drought by dropping whole limbs and resprouting from the base, which is a habit that makes municipal arborists nervous. Seville pruned its 50 metre specimen in 2025 specifically to reduce the risk of falling branches, and Valencia's crews need aerial platforms and help from the fire service to reach the top of theirs, 41 metres in a park in Benimamet. Barcelona's grew up inside the walled grounds of a charity house in the Raval, which is the only reason there was open soil for it in the densest neighbourhood in the city.
Seville
At 42 metres this street tree is the third tallest in Seville's own survey of its singular trees, an Australian eucalypt growing over an ordinary residential street named for the poet Pedro Salinas.
Two organisms are working on Seville's big river gums at once, and this one on the Guadalquivir bank carries both.
Barcelona
Close to 30 metres of Australian tree stands in the Raval, the most tightly built neighbourhood in Barcelona and close to the last place with room for anything this size.
Melbourne
Queen Victoria granted this ground to the people of Fitzroy in 1862.
The city register gives this tree a hundred years.
This one was probably never planted.
Valencia
At just over 41 metres tall, this eucalyptus is the tallest tree in the province of Valencia and the fourth tallest recorded anywhere in the wider region, a scale confirmed by the city's own mainte...
Naples
Six metres seventy-six round the trunk, which makes this the thickest tree on Naples' own register.
Cordoba
The thickest trunk in Cordoba's catalogue of singular trees belongs to an Australian.
Flinders Ranges
A photograph made this tree famous, and then the photograph named it.
Photo: Bahudhara (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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