Posted by talford in Houston on 8/6/2007, 2:22 pm, in reply to "Re: Largest eucalyptus flowers in Houston #2" I had read about gum nuts , but I just wasn't clear that they developed on the tree , after flowering, for this long a period. I was looking up into the tree trying to spot the flower buds way on top, above this years leaves, when I saw the first 3 1/2 cm gum nuts. I couldn't believe it - it looked so odd,I knew immediately that I was onto something very different than E. camaldulensis. Gus, the fact that these C. ptychocarpa are growing here in Houston, opens up a whole raft of questions relating to possibilities of hybridizing/grafting within the Corymbia Genus -I wrote something about this in the reply to Richard above. I had no idea that one of these large flowering trees could possibly grow in a hot/humid place such as this. My enthusiasm could quickly be wiped out , if it turns out these corymbias get wiped out by dips into the twenties (f), that are all to common here. I know I am assuming that we have a positive ID on the C. ptychocarpa, without having any expert look at the evidence, but this fellow felt pretty confident about this ID, As little as he knew about eucs., he kept trying to pronounce 'ptychocarpa' (while we were at lunch) before I caught on to what he was trying to say. He was talking about the 'pink fairy dusters', saying they were flowers about 1 inch in diameter. It took me a while to figure out he was talking about these Corymbias, I honestly thought he was refering to some species of Calliandra. Thanks Gus for taking so much time.
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Thanks Gus. After I read one of your posts, I went back to the 10 acre site and looked on the ground below some of the C. ptychocarpa for mature gum nuts that had fallen off. I didn't find any and wonder if these trees may not be old enough to have dropped them, having only been in the ground 5 years.
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