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Old 07-05-2008, 08:15 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Stewart Robert Hinsley Stewart Robert Hinsley is offline
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In message , Nick Maclaren
writes

In article ,
Sacha writes:
| On 6/5/08 19:32, in article , "Stewart Robert
| Hinsley" wrote:
| In message , cyberydne
| writes
|
| Hi, could anyone please tell me the name of the tree / shrub below
| please. It is currently about twenty foot in height and grows
| approximately six foot a year, which we cut back.
|
| Thank you in advance for any help.
|
| http://tinyurl.com/477gwe
|
| It might help if you gave the full URL - the firewall here has decided
| to take a dislike to tinyurl.com.
|
| It would certainly help to know the location if it grows 6'a year! At a
| cursory glance it looks like a Jacaranda mimosifolia but not at 6' a year in
| UK!

And whether it is deciduous or evergreen. I took it for one of the
anomalous conifers.

I'd had it as Acacia (dealbata or similar) or Albizia. I hadn't thought
to consider the colour of the twigs (red in Albizia.)

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.


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