Tree ID practice

[daltontrees]

There's one for sale in a nearby nursery, has been there for a while. When they finally get a sale they will have to take the roof off the conservatory and crane it out, it and its concrete tub must come in at about 2 tonnes.

[MATTMOSS]

That Olivier was just for practice, but here's another one from the same sunny location that I don't know what it is but I wouldn't waste peoples' time by asking for an ident. If anyone knows please share it with me and others.

 

I would put my money on this being = casuarina equisetifolia, other common names being, whistling pine, australian pine, beefwood and she oak mentioned before.

[daltontrees]

I do believe you are right! Thanks, I never would have found that.

I have found out the name equisetifolia comes from the similarity to horsetail (equisetum), it looks remarkably similar. It must be just the ticket in the incessant drying winds of the Canary Isles.

[daltontrees]

One more from the Canaries. This one I know because my mother-in-law has verified it from one she had in her garden in Malta.

[MATTMOSS]

I do believe you are right! Thanks, I never would have found that.

I have found out the name equisetifolia comes from the similarity to horsetail (equisetum), it looks remarkably similar. It must be just the ticket in the incessant drying winds of the Canary Isles.

 

Yes at first all the latin names of trees seem very complicated and over whelming but after learning about the different meanings they all cleverly relate to some aspect of the tree to the point where you can almost guess some (well nearly:001_smile:)

[MATTMOSS]

One more from the Canaries. This one I know because my mother-in-law has verified it from one she had in her garden in Malta.

 

Is this a Norfolk Island Pine?

 

Araucaria excelsa

 

[daltontrees]

Right common name, but I was going on basis of A. heterophylla. It may be a synonym. For someone in Oldham you know your subtropicals! It must be balmy there, maybe I shall holiday there next winter instead of Lanzarote.

 

Another useful scientific name, meaning different leaves, the juvenile ones being different form adult ones. As with Tsuga h. I think Araucaria was hhte name of a tribe in South America that early plant collectors encountered. Whoever it was that brought back A. araucana seems to have given the genus name after the tribe, he got the seeds as the story goes at a banquet given by the tribe. Doesn't matter if it's true, it's a mnemonic peg to hang the hat on.

Here's the full tree, not a great specimen.

 

I have a couple more from Lanzarote if anyone wants to have a go at them.

[MATTMOSS]

I have a couple more from Lanzarote if anyone wants to have a go at them.

 

 

come on then what we waitin for?

[daltontrees]

OK then, here's an easyish one. Fruit and structure first, as the foliage is a bit of a giveaway. I would add, this is a bit of a poor specimen in terms of foliage density but I took the pictures of this one because of the enormous pod.

[MATTMOSS]

Is it some kind of Acacia? or is it a carob tree?