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)
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Maybe it's time to start mentioning some of the weirder plants like
Cussonia or Brachychiton!
---Chas---
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