About the Guide

The ACE Guide to Eucalypts Melbourne is a pocket field guide to Melbourne's eucalypt species — practical, beautiful, and built to be used in the bush, not just on a bookshelf.

Each guide covers the eucalypts of a specific region, identified by bark, fruit, bud, and leaf — a method that works year-round, without waiting for flowering. High-resolution photography of bark, fruit, buds, and leaves sits alongside identification notes, habitat information, and Aboriginal knowledge.

The Melbourne edition covers 36 species — 32 indigenous and 4 introduced — across greater Melbourne.

The Authors

Vicky Shukuroglou

Author, Photographer, Artist & Educator

Vicky Shukuroglou is a multidisciplinary artist, photographer, and educator whose work moves between intimate natural observation and deep cultural engagement. She co-authored Loving Country: A Guide to Sacred Australia with Bruce Pascoe (Hardie Grant, 2020), creating all the photography for a book that maps the deep cultural and spiritual significance of Country as shared by Indigenous communities and Elders.

For the ACE Guide to Eucalypts Melbourne, Vicky co-wrote the text with Rod Fensham and developed much of the content that gives the guide its depth — habitat context, Aboriginal knowledge, and the ecological and cultural layers that sit alongside the identification method. She also created all the photography: macro shots of bark, bud, fruit, and leaf that capture the distinct character of each species.

Roderick Fensham

Ecologist, University of Queensland & Queensland Herbarium

Professor Rod Fensham is an ecologist at the University of Queensland with extensive research experience in Australian flora and vegetation. He developed the ACE identification method — using bark texture, fruit shape, bud form, and leaf character to identify species in the field — and first published it in the ACE Guide to Eucalypts: Brisbane (2021).

The Melbourne guide builds on that method, extended in collaboration with Vicky Shukuroglou to cover the 36 eucalypt species of greater Melbourne.

The Dahl Fellowship

The Melbourne guide was made possible through a Dahl Fellowship from Eucalypt Australia, supporting research and education about Australia's iconic eucalypt heritage.