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Msg. for Charlie re trees in Madeira
Charlie, can you remember what the street trees are in Madeira that they
call the tulip trees? They're not Liriodendrons but are pink with white bits and have rather waxy petals. We looked them up while we were there and have promptly forgotten again. Old age creeping on, obviously! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ |
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Msg. for Charlie re trees in Madeira
"Sacha" wrote in message ... Charlie, can you remember what the street trees are in Madeira that they call the tulip trees? They're not Liriodendrons but are pink with white bits and have rather waxy petals. We looked them up while we were there and have promptly forgotten again. Old age creeping on, obviously! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ Do you mean the Kapok trees? Chorisia speciosa -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea |
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Msg. for Charlie re trees in Madeira
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from Sacha contains these words: On 13/10/06 09:30, in article , "Charlie Pridham" wrote: Do you mean the Kapok trees? Chorisia speciosa That's it! Thank you. A lot of them were in flower while we were there and several were going over, so their flowering period must be long and staggered. They're really beautiful. Later in the year, the seed pods open , looking exactly like big lumps of cotton wool. Janet |
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Msg. for Charlie re trees in Madeira
On 13/10/06 11:34, in article ,
"Janet Baraclough" wrote: The message from Sacha contains these words: On 13/10/06 09:30, in article , "Charlie Pridham" wrote: Do you mean the Kapok trees? Chorisia speciosa That's it! Thank you. A lot of them were in flower while we were there and several were going over, so their flowering period must be long and staggered. They're really beautiful. Later in the year, the seed pods open , looking exactly like big lumps of cotton wool. Don't remember any of those, so we must have seen the 'going over' ones just before that. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ |
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Msg. for Charlie re trees in Madeira
"Sacha" wrote in message ... On 13/10/06 11:34, in article , "Janet Baraclough" wrote: The message from Sacha contains these words: On 13/10/06 09:30, in article , "Charlie Pridham" wrote: Do you mean the Kapok trees? Chorisia speciosa That's it! Thank you. A lot of them were in flower while we were there and several were going over, so their flowering period must be long and staggered. They're really beautiful. Later in the year, the seed pods open , looking exactly like big lumps of cotton wool. Don't remember any of those, so we must have seen the 'going over' ones just before that. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ The green pods were just starting to split when we were there so you only just missed them. -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea |
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Msg. for Charlie re trees in Madeira
On 13/10/06 18:11, in article , "Charlie
Pridham" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message ... On 13/10/06 11:34, in article , "Janet Baraclough" wrote: snip Later in the year, the seed pods open , looking exactly like big lumps of cotton wool. Don't remember any of those, so we must have seen the 'going over' ones just before that. -- The green pods were just starting to split when we were there so you only just missed them. Yes, a close-run thing! We saw lots of petals lying on the ground in the streets and in the hotel gardens but equally, we saw many still in full flower. They really are a wonderful sight. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ |
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I saw some truly astonishing examples of C. speciosa in northern Argentina, where it is native. Absolutely massive, trunk about 6 feet in diameter, the flowers of a single tree perfuming a whole square. In Spanish, they call it "palo borracho", which means drunken stick, referring to the way the trunk bulges out as if it has a pot-belly on mature specimens, which becomes more obvious on mature trees. The "thorns" on the trunks can be something to behold too. |
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