Re: help ID mystery tree in Redding, California
- Subject: Re: help ID mystery tree in Redding, California
- From: S* A* O*
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 18:22:44 -0700
Julie -
Might is be Melaleuca linariifolia, the Flaxleaf Paperbark? See this web
page for more information and some (poor) photos:
http://www.fuf.net/newsite/archive/pages/V83w84.html
Seán O.
At 04:41 PM 5/14/2002, Julie Nelson wrote:
>Can you help me identify an ornamental tree that is flowering now in
>Redding, California (far northern end of the Sacramento Valley, Sunset zone 9)?
>The size and shape of the tree are like an old olive tree--rounded crown,
>gnarled trunk with fissured, stringy, shreddy bark. The flowers are in 1
>inch (2.5 cm) long cylindrical clusters at the ends of the branches. The
>flowers are cream-colored, with 5 sepals united partway into a tube, 5
>small petals, one pistil, and the oddest thing--5 pinnately branched
>stamens with a tiny anther at the end of each branch. The stamens are
>much longer than the flower petals and give the tree a frothy look from a
>distance.
>The leaves are narrow, stiff and glaucous, not quite needle-like; about 3
>cm long and 2-3mm wide.
>The whole tree has a southern hemisphere look about it.
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