Re: Another mystery tree
Dear Planters,
Dombeyas have soft fuzzy easily torn leaves and shiny, leathery almost
indestructable leaves. Though only a few are grown in the US, all south
of Sta. Barbara there are many members of this genus.
I grew the one whose flowers look and smell like a Hostess 1/2 round,
pink, coconut covered "pastry(sic((k)))"...can't remember the name but it
succumbed during a cold winter. The SD Zoo on the otherhand is loaded
with the leathery one with red-orange flowers. I think I got mine at
thye long-gone nursery next to Quail--was it Stalling's?
A nice family of tropical trees and shrubs.
Michael D. Barclay
Nan Sterman wrote:
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> >>Any chance it is a dombeya?
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> >All the dombeya leaves I have pictures for look soft and hairy.
> >This is shiny, and if you rub it, it gets even shinier.
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> >Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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> I have a dombeya and it is not soft and hairy, it is smooth and shiny....
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> Nan
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