Greenbelt Tree ID?
Anyone know what the evergreen tree/bush, which looks a lot like a
ficus benjamani but with tiny grape-like clusters of purple-black fruit, growing along the greenbelt is? Most seemed to be multitrunked, with very light bark and rather glossy dark green leaves. (I didn't have my camera today, and I don't have a web site to post a photo to anyway.) I didn't see anything like it in Wasowski's NATIVE PLANTS. Is it native, naturalized, undesirable for any particular reason? Are the fruits eaten by birds or animals? Just looking for native species with interesting textures, colors, and/or wildlife attracting properties. |
Greenbelt Tree ID?
Sounds like ligustrum to me. Invasive pest as far as I am concerned.
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Greenbelt Tree ID?
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Greenbelt Tree ID?
(Babberney) wrote in message news:9FE2DC4361D5C90E.5B84ACAB99AC2FB2.CCA3DBA7A3 ...
On 15 Dec 2002 17:00:51 -0800, (ratSenoL) wrote: Anyone know what the evergreen tree/bush, which looks a lot like a ficus benjamani but with tiny grape-like clusters of purple-black fruit, growing along the greenbelt is? Most seemed to be multitrunked, with very light bark and rather glossy dark green leaves. (I didn't have my camera today, and I don't have a web site to post a photo to anyway.) I didn't see anything like it in Wasowski's NATIVE PLANTS. Is it native, naturalized, undesirable for any particular reason? Are the fruits eaten by birds or animals? Just looking for native species with interesting textures, colors, and/or wildlife attracting properties. I'll second (third?) the opinions already expressed. A former coworker called it the "second-biggest weed in TX." Biggest being . . . care to guess? Thanks for the responses; although somewhat pretty, it doesn't sound like something I want in my landscape. |
Greenbelt Tree ID?
"ratSenoL" wrote in message om... | (Babberney) wrote in message news:9FE2DC4361D5C90E.5B84ACAB99AC2FB2.CCA3DBA7A3 t... | On 15 Dec 2002 17:00:51 -0800, (ratSenoL) | wrote: | | Anyone know what the evergreen tree/bush, which looks a lot like a | ficus benjamani but with tiny grape-like clusters of purple-black | fruit, growing along the greenbelt is? Most seemed to be | multitrunked, with very light bark and rather glossy dark green | leaves. (I didn't have my camera today, and I don't have a web site | to post a photo to anyway.) I didn't see anything like it in | Wasowski's NATIVE PLANTS. Is it native, naturalized, undesirable for | any particular reason? Are the fruits eaten by birds or animals? | | Just looking for native species with interesting textures, colors, | and/or wildlife attracting properties. | I'll second (third?) the opinions already expressed. A former | coworker called it the "second-biggest weed in TX." Biggest being .. . | . care to guess? | | Thanks for the responses; although somewhat pretty, it doesn't sound | like something I want in my landscape. We had one, two stories tall, that had to be taken down, here before we were. They do invade the creekbeds and crowd out the native understory, but the berries produced by our specimen did attract the most beautiful flocks of cedar waxwings twice a year. |
Greenbelt Tree ID?
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:43:09 GMT, "Texensis"
wrote: "ratSenoL" wrote in message . com... | Thanks for the responses; although somewhat pretty, it doesn't sound | like something I want in my landscape. We had one, two stories tall, that had to be taken down, here before we were. They do invade the creekbeds and crowd out the native understory, but the berries produced by our specimen did attract the most beautiful flocks of cedar waxwings twice a year. One of the first things I did when we moved here was to chop down the huge ligustrums shading out what was then a very young possumhaw. The possumhaw is now 12' or so, and set a good crop of berries this year. Its a good example of how ligustrum may not be offering more food for birds, just displacing previously available wild food sources that local and migratory bird species have adapted to and depend on. On the eastern corner we have a near monoculture of small ligustrums, where nothing like a new possumhaw would ever have a chance. I'm cutting and pulling as fast as I can. :-) |
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