Mystery tree ? Australian
- To: Mediterannean Plants List
- Subject: Mystery tree ? Australian
- From: T* &* M* R*
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:37:12 +1200
Hi folks
Someone on the Organic list living in Ireland has set this puzzle and,
as I haven't had any luck solving it, I pass the query to you.
Here is what she says:-
"My mystery tree is in a friend's garden; he pointed to it and said: "Do
you
know what that is? All I know is that it's Australian".
It has small leaves in threes; the three leaves together would make up
perhaps the size of an American cent coin. At the moment it has pods,
which
are brown and hard, about an inch long and a third of an inch wide, and
like pea pods - in other words, not segmented. I haven't seen it in
flower.
The coldest temperature it would face would be just below freezing, I
think, and the hottest maybe 20 degrees Celsius."
In spite of the owner's opinion I wonder if it is indeed Australian. It
appears to be some member of the Leguminoseae, but I can't think of any
one in this group from Oz with a trifoliate leaf, and a tiny one at
that.
Any ideas?
Moira
--
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of New Zealand)
