270px, Dean Nicolle and '' Eucalyptus deanei'' Dean Nicolle (born 1974), is an Australian botanist,

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and

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. He is widely recognised as the leading authority on the genus ''

Eucalyptus ''Eucalyptus'' () is a genus of over seven hundred species of flowering trees, shrubs or mallees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including '' Corymbia'', they are commonly known as e ...

''. Nicolle was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1974 and developed an interest in ''Eucalyptus'' trees as a young man. After completing a Bachelor of Science at

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he went on to complete his PhD in 2008 on mallee trees at Flinders University. Shortly afterwards Nicolle created the

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, on a site in the Fleurieu region in

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. He is currently the director and head of research at the arboretum and has cultivated over 900 species and subspecies of ''Eucalyptus''.

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