Hi Richard,
The plant is definetly a grevillea, not a frangipani. It has the classic
grevillea flower shape with the multiple stamens. The grevillea rubusta
over the road from me has exactly the same flower, its just that the
larger trees I am talking about have a definite "planar" effect with the
way the flowers are grouped. If you take a train ride from Melbourne out
to Lillydale, you'll see hundreds of these trees along the way. They have
the same flower, but the tree looks quite different to the G.robusta
pictures in the first lot of links you sent. Maybe they are a slightly
different cultivar to the G.rubusta.
Regards,
Ed.
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Hi Richard,
thank you for the links. They helped me to identify a Grevilea Robusta
(about 5M high)over the road from my place. However although very similar
to the type I am talking about, it doesn't have the stratified bands of
flowers across it's foliage. The flowers of the G.Robusta in the pictures
seem quite random in their positioning.
I wonder if the stratafication only happens when they get really big? They
are a really spectacular tree. And apart from attracting birds, the bees
seem to like them too.
Regards,
Ed.
Loosecanon wrote:
Grevillea robusta I think pics
http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/phtml...pn=3990&size=2
http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/phtml?pc=a&pn=783&size=2
This is getting upto the big stuff in the genus. Most others are shrubs.
Susceptible to sooty mold in WA.
Richard
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Now I am thinking what you are describing is not a Grevillea at all. That
stratification or different layers on the tree sounds like the native
frangapani (Hymemosporum flavum). Anyways here is a pic or 3 of that :
http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/phtml...pn=9776&size=2
http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/phtml...pn=3097&size=2
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/...sweetshade.jpg
They have a habit of the first branch being at a particular height then the
next is up higher but at different point. The branches spiral up the tree
and unpruned specimens have a shape like a pine tree. That is wide at the
bottom and going upto a point. This tree would fit height wise too.
Cheers
Richard
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