Re: Another mystery tree
Diane Whitehead wrote:
>
> Maybe this is the chance to have my mystery tree identified.
>
> About 30 years ago I read a library book on Temperate Trees (or a
> similar title). It had lots of coloured pictures of glorious trees
> growing in Australia. Not quite the "temperate" I was expecting, but
> OK for California. A friend took note of one of these trees I
> admired and grew me a seedling, but neither of us has been able to
> remember which tree it is.
>
> I have it in my unheated greenhouse where it reaches the roof which
> is about 5m high at the point above the tree. It would likely grow
> higher, but the high heat just under the glass stops growth of all my
> trees. No worry about anything pushing the roof off.
>
> The leaf is like a large palmate maple leaf, very shiny, evergreen.
> It has never flowered, which makes it hard to identify.
Diane
I see you say your tree is an evergreen, which cuts out the possibility
of it being a sycamore or a plane tree as, though some of these have
leaves very similar in shape to your description, they are all
deciduous, as are also the vast majority of maples except one or two
very obscure species.
What I am not quite clear about is whether the tree is supposed to be a
native Australian or was merely being grown in that country?
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of New Zealand)
