Fear of Eucalyptus Tree Removals

August 9, 2007

From the Reporters Notebook in Daily Journal:

At that same meeting, commissioner Robert Mayer coined a new term: eucalyptaphobia. That's the fear of eucalyptus trees. Mayer worried that's what a prior commission was suffering from when it approved the removal of the stately trees from the area around the old NDNU athletic field. While that fear is not officially recognized by medical professionals, the fear of trees (in general) is dendrophobia.

Now what about the fear of tree removal? Let's have Burlingame residents coin that term.

My suggestion – (1) B-gameuchystericalness. My other suggestions would be bleeped by the editors.

– Written by Fiona

Posted in Easton Addition, Trees

5 responses to “Fear of Eucalyptus Tree Removals”

Anonymous

August 9, 2007

Actually, the fear of tree removal, whatever anyone calls it, is quite warranted. The reason? Fear that what we get back is of lesser value, or worse… nothing at all.
Myles

August 10, 2007

Jen:

Tree’s die. Get over it. Do we let a tree that is becoming more brittle on a daily basis fall and kill a human being or do we put into place a plan that removes old trees and plant new trees that will last another 100 years.

I pick human life and safety over a #!*/@ing tree.
Anonymous

August 11, 2007

Everybody and everything dies, Myles. Three professionals give that tree 30-50 years. It may outlive you and me. It will probably outlive many trees that the city is planting today, and that is my point.
Anonymous

August 11, 2007

Most trees with a 30/50 year life span are not humping into the street and so that is why this 30/50 life spanned tree is considered a traffic hazard.

To many this tree-with-a-growing-hump is of lesser value than planting a new tree which will not look majestic today but in less than 30/50 years will be a beautiful non-traffic-hazard-tree on Easton Drive.
JT

August 11, 2007

Many people consider eucalyptus a weed because they grow like one. For neighbors I have a grove of them, they’re messy, invasive, prolific tree sized weeds. The last thing I would ever call them is magestic… except as an adjective to problem.

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