Posted by talford in Houston on 8/3/2007, 2:40 am, in reply to "Does it look like this a bit?" http://trees.stanford.edu/images/Eucalyptus/Eucalyptus%20ficifolia.jpg Gus , I'm going to go by the realty office in person today (hopefully)and ask if they can put me in touch with the planter. I'm just not optimistic because I remember this guy liked his privacy, and realtors are not into helping people - they are into unloading properties onto people for the highest possible price. I was looking through good line drawings of 'Key to Eucalypts of Greater Brisbane' , it's a Pdf file and I don't know how to link to it. Anyway this is a more hot/humid area ,at least by Australian standards, looking at C.ptychocarpa, and C. trachyphloia , ptychocarpa shows heavy ridges on the nut, but only a very few nuts on my trees have these ribs, most are just smooth. No camera, no experience.....If I don't find this planter, we just may never know.
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Very close Gus.Foe all I know that may be the ID. Man oh man, that is some heavy flowering euc/corym. The ones I have may be a little larger and less rotund, that is the taper over their length is straight - don't know if I'm making sense. Here is almost a dead ringer for them ,both leaf and nut-well,then there is the problem of leaf variation - some were a lighter lime green and real long,but still quite wide compared to an E.camaldulensis type.(the Sanford U. site ) at http://trees.stanford.edu/ENCYC/EUCfic.htm
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This result is a little disappointing because this extreme Australian southwest species will not grow in hot humid areas, but I'm wondering if I,m dealing with some Corymbia, because of the finely textured, redish brown bark, with fine lengthwise fissures,as small as 2mm on young bark,except 1 year old bark,and that is green ,ie,no bark . A lot of these little trees are only about 6 cm at the base. The larger trees ,about 20 cm at the base have an older more deeply fissured redish brown to greyish bark - just looks like the tree is spliting out of it's skin, and the bark's fibers are being expanded till they rip apart in long parralel fissures, with little individual threads of bark getting stretched across the valleys of the fissures.
To confuse things some more - a few (only a few)of the nuts had some distinct 'ribs' or lengthwise ridges on them.
Again, I know I'm just trying everyones patience without a camera. The flowers and nuts were up above 4 meters on all these trees this time , so most were out of reach.
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