Re: Needing identification on a tree

[FlowerGirl[_1_]]

"Ms Leebee" > wrote in message
...
> Hi there.
> Sorry for the gatecrash on the group !
>
> Looking for identification of a tree in my yard.
>
> It has red and green leaves all of the time, ( so it's not deciduous, and
> not evergreen ). It also has yellow 'spikes' as flowers which may or may
> not be a form of wattle ( ? )
>
> It has a grey trunk.
>
> I like this tree, but it isn't a good specimen ( lower brances appear to
> have been ripped off ) and could be diseased in part ? Outer branches
look
> so dry and grey they could be dead, yet leaves still grow, so ?
>
> Recent gale force winds ( it took a whupping ) have made me reconsider
> keeping it, but I like it so
> much, I figured if it does have to go, I will simply buy another.
>
> Pics have been posted in: alt.binaries.ozdebate, and
> bigpond.broadband.binaries.
>
> TIA.
>

Looks like Omalanthus populifolious (native bleeding heart). May be O.nutans
now after a name change??
http://www.anbg.gov.au/images/photo_cd/732131822188/038.html

A rainforest tree.
Amanda

[FlowerGirl[_1_]]

"FlowerGirl" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Ms Leebee" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Hi there.
> > Sorry for the gatecrash on the group !
> >
> > Looking for identification of a tree in my yard.
> >
> > It has red and green leaves all of the time, ( so it's not deciduous,
and
> > not evergreen ). It also has yellow 'spikes' as flowers which may or
may
> > not be a form of wattle ( ? )
> >
> > It has a grey trunk.
> >
> > I like this tree, but it isn't a good specimen ( lower brances appear to
> > have been ripped off ) and could be diseased in part ? Outer branches
> look
> > so dry and grey they could be dead, yet leaves still grow, so ?
> >
> > Recent gale force winds ( it took a whupping ) have made me reconsider
> > keeping it, but I like it so
> > much, I figured if it does have to go, I will simply buy another.
> >
> > Pics have been posted in: alt.binaries.ozdebate, and
> > bigpond.broadband.binaries.
> >
> > TIA.
> >
>
> Looks like Omalanthus populifolious (native bleeding heart). May be
O.nutans
> now after a name change??
> http://www.anbg.gov.au/images/photo_cd/732131822188/038.html
>
> A rainforest tree.
> Amanda
>

I do think it is Omalanthus from your pics and your description.
The leaves can be almost heart shaped and red (derr the common name). Its a
rainforest poineer species (which means its the first generation of plants
that colonise a gap in the rainforest) amd it brings in the birs which in
turn bring in the seeds for the secondary r'forest species.
I also like the tree. ... its a native (to Australia, maybe not to
Melbourne:)
Amanda

[FlowerGirl[_1_]]

"FlowerGirl" > wrote in message
...
>
> "FlowerGirl" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > "Ms Leebee" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > Hi there.
> > > Sorry for the gatecrash on the group !
> > >
> > > Looking for identification of a tree in my yard.
> > >
> > > It has red and green leaves all of the time, ( so it's not deciduous,
> and
> > > not evergreen ). It also has yellow 'spikes' as flowers which may or
> may
> > > not be a form of wattle ( ? )
> > >
> > > It has a grey trunk.
> > >
> > > I like this tree, but it isn't a good specimen ( lower brances appear
to
> > > have been ripped off ) and could be diseased in part ? Outer branches
> > look
> > > so dry and grey they could be dead, yet leaves still grow, so ?
> > >
> > > Recent gale force winds ( it took a whupping ) have made me reconsider
> > > keeping it, but I like it so
> > > much, I figured if it does have to go, I will simply buy another.
> > >
> > > Pics have been posted in: alt.binaries.ozdebate, and
> > > bigpond.broadband.binaries.
> > >
> > > TIA.
> > >
> >
> > Looks like Omalanthus populifolious (native bleeding heart). May be
> O.nutans
> > now after a name change??
> > http://www.anbg.gov.au/images/photo_cd/732131822188/038.html
> >
> > A rainforest tree.
> > Amanda
> >
>
> I do think it is Omalanthus from your pics and your description.
> The leaves can be almost heart shaped and red (derr the common name). Its
a
> rainforest poineer species (which means its the first generation of plants
> that colonise a gap in the rainforest) amd it brings in the birs which in
> turn bring in the seeds for the secondary r'forest species.
> I also like the tree. ... its a native (to Australia, maybe not to
> Melbourne:)
> Amanda
>
>

...and I think the name *has* changed to Omalanthus nutans. ... which is also
the same as O. novo-guinensis (which is what I used to know it as) ....
maybe google those names for some pics and compare.
Also - you could check to see if it has milky sap (pick a young stem) as
Euphorbiacea species usually have this feature.....
A