What tree is this? Seems exotic

[jmonkfish]

Woah! You guys nailed it! Spent hours trying to identify it.

 

Thank you so much for the caution as well. Plan was to put one in our yard about 10 feet from our foundation.

 

 

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[easy-lift guy]

Ted, wondering if your Silk Oak is the same as our Silky Oak or Grevillea?

 

Looks like it may be from the same family. I believe this tree is still pretty useless for ones landscape, at least here in Florida.

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[Chris at eden]

That is a silk oak tree. Very common in Florida. Dirty, brittle and having a shallow root system that will be doing enough damage to the foundation of the house in the picture.

You could not pay me to have a tree like that in my yard and I never planted one for any of my customers. Wood is good for smoke. Other than that nothing wrong with it at all. I would not be surprised if that picture was in Florida based on the housing and other landscape material surround the tree.

easy-lift guy

 

My initial thoughts were some kind of evergreen oak. Would never have known what species though.

 

Interesting comments about foundation damage. Why is that? Do you have a lot of shrinkable / expansive soils in Florida? I wouldn't expect direct damage at that distance in the UK?

[easy-lift guy]

My initial thoughts were some kind of evergreen oak. Would never have known what species though.

 

Interesting comments about foundation damage. Why is that? Do you have a lot of shrinkable / expansive soils in Florida? I wouldn't expect direct damage at that distance in the UK?

 

Chris, in SW Florida we have sand instead of soil. The water table in some areas can be as shallow as 3' and generally trees don't like wet feet. The root systems have no where to go except in some cases just inches below the surface and also at the surface level. Driveways and sidewalks are usually the first to go and depending on how close people plant trees to foundations houses are next.

Only rookies would plant trees so close to homes like shown in the pictures.

Problem is code requirements force builders and developers to plant X number of trees per parcel and usually no exceptions are granted. The results speak volumes when it comes to the mental midgets calling the shots.

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[jmonkfish]

Located near Sacramento, California. Soil tends to be like clay here, oaks are native to the area.

 

 

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[se7enthdevil]

grevillea robusta is native to australia.

[jmonkfish]

Thx, apparently this is not of the regular oak species like the others around here. May also need to take a whiff of the tree and see if I'm allergic.

 

 

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[Taupotreeman]

Thx, apparently this is not of the regular oak species like the others around here. May also need to take a whiff of the tree and see if I'm allergic.

 

 

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It's not Oak as in Quercus. Many people seem to be allergic to the fine hairs, saw dust and sometimes the sap so check first.

[jmonkfish]

Wanted to test if I was allergic. Picked up a branch off the ground (this tree sheds like crazy!) and breathed deeply about 3" away.

 

25 min later throat/pharynx inflamed and itchiness on the back of neck.

 

Thanks once again for your identification and advice! We'll have to find a different tree for our yard.

 

 

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[easy-lift guy]

Wanted to test if I was allergic. Picked up a branch off the ground (this tree sheds like crazy!) and breathed deeply about 3" away.

 

25 min later throat/pharynx inflamed and itchiness on the back of neck.

 

Thanks once again for your identification and advice! We'll have to find a different tree for our yard.

 

 

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Please don't set yourself up for a severe allergic reaction again. Do you carry and Epi-pen while your outside working or even in general? If you don't and tried that experiment on yourself and had a stronger reaction, there's a good chance you would be at room temp by now. Learn the genius species of the silk oak and stay away from these types of trees in the future at all cost.

Take care

easy-lift guy