RE: Tree Identification
- Subject: RE: Tree Identification
- From: "Cheryl Renshaw" c*@wr-architect.com
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:27:32 -0800
- Importance: Normal
Here are some photos of Inga edulis (which I think may be the same thing):
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ecoph26.htm#icbean
http://www.csh.umn.edu/WhatsNew/hawaii_02/pg16.html
Cheryl
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> [o*@ucdavis.edu]On Behalf Of Mach Fukada
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 2:17 PM
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Re: Tree Identification
>
>
> Perhaps Inga affinis ? the ice cream bean or cotton candy tree
> MTF
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tony and Moira Ryan" <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
> To: "Mediterannean Plants List" <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 9:55 AM
> Subject: Tree Identification
>
>
> > Hi Folks
> > A call to identify a tree from the Hobby Greenhouse list has me stumped.
> > This is the description:-
> >
> > "I came home from Costa Rica with a seed from a tree which has a very
> > interesting leaf structure. The seeds are lima bean sized and grow in
> > large brown pods about 8 inches long. The pods are sold at roadside
> > stands
> > as a delicacy. The seed coating is delicious. The leaf starts out
> > looking normal enough, but keeps growing at the tip into a "Y" shape.
> > I
> > have posted a picture of it on my web
> > site: http://home.usadatanet.net/~sculp/Greenhouse/Unknown.JPG.";
> >
> > The description certainly sounds like some sort of legume, but the
> > foliage does not look leguminous to me.
> >
> > Ideas anybody?
> >
> > Moira
> > --
> > Tony & Moira Ryan,
> > Wainuiomata, North Island, NZ. Pictures of our garden at:-
> > http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cherie1/Garden/TonyandMoira/index.htm
> >
>
![http://home.usadatanet.net/~sculp/Greenhouse/Unknown.JPG."](http://home.usadatanet.net/~sculp/Greenhouse/Unknown.JPG."){kind=link}