Posted by talford in Houston on 8/4/2007, 6:00 am, in reply to "Re: Does it look like this a bit?" In view of the variability exhibited by the many Corymbia ptychocarpas growing at the 10 acres, I asked the planter if any of his seed sources had mentioned if any of the seed was hybrid or if they could confirm how pure the seed was. This is a huge consideration when ordering some species of palm for example. He told me purity of seed was never mentioned.If there is hybridization ,it would take a heavy duty expert to sort that sort of thing out - Gus at $300 an hour. Gus pointed out in a previous post that, there is no substitute for actual 'in person', on hands examination of the trees themselves to make positive ID's, even though books,internet pictures,and quality camera pics, are helpful.I can easily see that it takes years of study and ,much more importantly, years of experience to make goood,accurate ID's. Heck, I didn't even know how to identify E. robusta (very common tree both here and in Australia), the mystery euc in my first set of posts.If I had provided Gus with quality camera shots of E. robusta leaf,bark,tree form,flower parts( a tree important for it's dense, hard wood) , chances are good that You, George, and Gus would have come back with the ID . As to the paired leaf eucs , I can say they look a lot like the E. robustas , except there were no flower buds on them - they didn't appear to be ready to flower. The paired-leaf trees had very fine textured bark of a distinct red/brown color. Down at the base of the older trees , the reddish bark was more course and more deeply fissured. But that just ain't a whole lot to go on. The parts of the flowering structures would be more helpful to you.And of course, pics. Thanks Phil, Later, Tom.
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Yes, Phil , it is a possibility, and thanks for mentioning this whole group of trees in the euc family that I overlooked. Neither the planter nor I have much euc knowledge, but we both had spotted these paired-leaf trees as quite different.The planter was unaware of the 1995 (?) division of eucs into Euc.,Corymbia,Angophora. Although he kept records (packing reciepts) of the seeds he ordered and planted (from 3 different companies), I didn't check them that close (not that I would have known what I was looking at anyway), and it's real possible that some of the seed sellers missed some of the finer points of classification - I don't think Windmill Outback (one of the seed sources used by the planter) would have missclassified anything however - that guy is very knowlesgeable.
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