“…Within-tree variation of cell length property in Eucalyptus has been previously examined (Rudman, 1970;Valente et al, 1992;Ridoutt & Sands, 1993;Jorge et al, 2000;Hudson et al, 2001;Muneri & Raymond, 2001;Rao et al, 2002;Quilhó et al, 2006). However, while a few papers have been published on the radial variation of vessel element length (Dadswell, 1958;Ohbabayashi & Shiokura, 1990;Sharma et al 2005), there is little information on the variation in the axial direction.…”