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Identify a tree

  • 19-07-2006 9:32pm
    #1
    vallo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 243 ✭✭


    Can anyone help me identify a tree that is growing near where I live. It is very attractive, about 40 ft tall with leaves not unlike a eucalyptus, but longer, more fingerlike. It smells gorgeous, like the middle of a californian forest.
    It has really distinctive seeds which are all over the ground now.
    They are like half an acorn, the top half where they were connected to the tree is knarled looking and has four ridges, more pronounced on some than on others. On more mature seeds, this section has a dusting of a coppery-blue. The underside has a 5-pointed star on it with the seeds inside. When it pops, there is a star-shaped hole left in it.
    Anyone?


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  • #2
    Gone West
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


    edit: oops need a minute to think of the name. I know the tree youre talking about.


  • #3
    AdrianR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭AdrianR


    You might have answered your own question, does this look familiar?


  • #4
    vallo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 243 ✭✭vallo


    Ahhhhhh ... thank-you so much. That's the fella allright!
    I knew there was something very eucalyptussy about it (I never even mentioned the beautiful, swirly-strippy bark!) but I never saw a eucalyptus seed like that.
    Thanks again.


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