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Portugal, Greece, Spain, Chile, California and now Hawaii have all battled wildfires this year as high temperatures and strong winds have whipped small sparks into violent infernos.

“This collector-scientist orchestrated and sustained the push, bolstering it with scientific authority: he canvassed colleagues and interested individuals, publishers, politicians, and the public in the benefits of this genus,” Doughty wrote.

But Dr Curran is an ecologist — one who conducts experiments on a literal plant barbecue — and he knows the essential oils that give the eucalyptus tree its sharp, antiseptic-like fragrance are also “highly ignitable”.

“The second point, and this is probably the more important one in terms of why eucalypts change fire regimes particularly in other parts of the world, is that they produce a lot of flammable material in the leaf litter layer … known as fine fuels.”

The year of 2017 saw the worst wildfire ever recorded in Chile, with hundreds of fires converging to burn more than 5,000 square kilometres of land in what the country came to refer to as “tormenta de fuego” — firestorm.

In the United States, the Department of Forestry considers several species of eucalyptus to be naturalised in both California and Hawaii, meaning they can regenerate by themselves and have the ability to spread beyond the areas where they were intentionally planted.

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