The sites where the Miena cider gum is found tend to be poorly drained and prone to freezing.

This Miena cider gum is noted for exceptional cold tolerance for a eucalyptus.

There are only eight small stands of Miena cider gum occupying in total only few hundred hectares.

When bottled and capped, the liquid ferments and resembles apple cider, hence cider gum.

Early settlers laid possum traps beneath Miena cider gum trees because possums found the sap highly palatable.

The first cider gum (Eucalyptus gunnii) in Great Britain is said to have been planted in the grounds of the castle in 1853, and to have survived for over one hundred years.

Eucalyptus gunnii (cider gum or gunnii) is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae, endemic to Tasmania, occurring on the plains and slopes of the central plateaux to around 1100 metres, with isolated occurrences south of Hobart.

Several other species, especially from the high plateau and mountains of central Tasmania such as Eucalyptus coccifera, Eucalyptus subcrenulata and Eucalyptus gunnii, have also produced extreme cold-hardy forms and it is seed procured from these genetically hardy strains that are planted for ornament in colder parts of the world.