Re: Was re: Oleander, now best and worse
Oh dear, one of ours I fear. Try Brachychiton populneum. A very useful tree in
its native habitat (New South Wales) but a pest here in Western Australia. Does
it have pinkish-cream bell-shaped flowers and are the seed pods shaped like
little boats?
Beverly
Vavourakis wrote:
> Oh Susannah, I am hurt about the photinia. I quite like the cute little
> sprays of cream flowers and their coppery coloring habit that matches so
> nicely (in an offhand way) with clay pots-if the davidii is the one I have.
> And the fact that they need no care scores big with me, too.
>
> My own pet peeve is a tree I don't even know the name of...maybe someone out
> there knows. It is a shorter, conical fast-growing evergreen thing commonly
> used as a street tree here in Athens. It has a revolting greenish tinge to
> its trunk and limbs and an abundance of ghastly blackish seed pods which have
> irritating-to-sensitive-skin fibers inside. The leaves have three points I
> think, and if the tree were deciduous, it would possibly look even worse.
> The features I hate the most is the tapering trunk and the lollipop look of
> it. Yuck ick. Get the chainsaw!
>
> Karen
>
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