Who is up for some?

Yup

Cool. I have pictures, to demonstrate, but I think I may go for words first up….

I would definitely describe this as a Tropical tree, but to date I have only ever seen one at Mangolia. Will have to look harder elsewhere…

Not an umbrella tree I hope…

Dinetta said:

Not an umbrella tree I hope…

Certainly not, have seen many an Umbrella Tree from South Australia to Papua New Guinea… this one I thought was something else, until it flowered.

OK, it grows in Mangolia, it’s tropical, and not an umbrella tree…You’re living up to the “Pain” in your pseudonym…again…

It has leafs that remind me of Jacarandas, and the flowers are loved by both bees and birds, and it flowers right at the end of the wet season.

pain master said:

It has leafs that remind me of Jacarandas, and the flowers are loved by both bees and birds, and it flowers right at the end of the wet season.

Does that mean that it’s flowering now?

pomolo said:

pain master said:

It has leafs that remind me of Jacarandas, and the flowers are loved by both bees and birds, and it flowers right at the end of the wet season.

Does that mean that it’s flowering now?

A yellow delinox?

pomolo said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

It has leafs that remind me of Jacarandas, and the flowers are loved by both bees and birds, and it flowers right at the end of the wet season.

Does that mean that it’s flowering now?

A yellow delinox?

Is there a Yellow Delonix? And yes it is flowering today, yesterday, last week and prolly continue until next week… if the Lorikeets stop making a mess.

pain master said:

pomolo said:

pomolo said:

Does that mean that it’s flowering now?

A yellow delinox?

Is there a Yellow Delonix? And yes it is flowering today, yesterday, last week and prolly continue until next week… if the Lorikeets stop making a mess.

Well, I’ll be jiggered, there is a Yellow Delonix and no it doesn’t appear in Mangolia.

Yes there’s a Yellow “Delonix”, but is that flowering just now? What colour are the flowers, or is that too good a clue?

I have a flower with me, the flowers form a tight pendulous raceme and each individual flower 5 Sepals with 4 fused together to form the back of the calyx and the 5th sepal acting like a hood.

If I peel back the fleshy calyx, it exposes 2 tightly wrapped petals. The other 2 petals have followed the hood section of the Calyx and look almost like donkeys ears.

10 stamens are prominent on this specimen.

There is a 5th very under-developed petal enclosed in the 2 lower petals, this protects the receptacle.

colvillea racemosa?

bubba louie said:

colvillea racemosa?

I was waiting for input from Bubba.

Correct.

and here are some images…

the bark:

the mess the Lorikeets make:

and the leafs:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

colvillea racemosa?

I was waiting for input from Bubba.

Correct.

And I’ve got one growing too. I better look to see if it’s flowering. It has never flowered yet.

Here is the Tree:

the Raceme:

and a close up of the flowers:

So what did you think it was at first?

Good on you Bubba. You get the slab of beer.

pain master said:

Here is the Tree:

the Raceme:

and a close up of the flowers:

I would like mine to flower NOW!

pomolo said:

So what did you think it was at first?

Good on you Bubba. You get the slab of beer.

I first thought it was a Delonix by its leaves, and habit, and the fact there is a million of them here in Townsville, but then I noticed a lack of seed-pods and the first Racemes were forming….

pomolo said:

So what did you think it was at first?

Good on you Bubba. You get the slab of beer.

Make it cider please.

We’re just back from the cousins meet and I have a red wine headache.

bubba louie said:

We’re just back from the cousins meet and I have a red wine headache.

Plus this should be in chat.

Some crackers of this plant in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens.
Good to see the Trivia back.
At least one regular topic will be relevant to gardening :-)

stunning pics PM :)

Longy said:

Some crackers of this plant in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens.
Good to see the Trivia back.
At least one regular topic will be relevant to gardening :-)

So, how’s the Pecan Pie? :D

pain master said:

Who is up for some?

where is collie?
this is a sitter.

pepe said:

pain master said:

Who is up for some?

where is collie?
this is a sitter.

WHERE is Collie????

anyone up for some more?

pain master said:

anyone up for some more?

Bring it on.

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

anyone up for some more?

Bring it on.

If a Roman and a Swiss wandered on high and found a rusty nail, what Tree would they stumble upon?

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

anyone up for some more?

Bring it on.

If a Roman and a Swiss wandered on high and found a rusty nail, what Tree would they stumble upon?

I’m hopeless at cryptic.

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Bring it on.

If a Roman and a Swiss wandered on high and found a rusty nail, what Tree would they stumble upon?

I’m hopeless at cryptic.

Please explain? in my best Pauline voice.

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

If a Roman and a Swiss wandered on high and found a rusty nail, what Tree would they stumble upon?

I’m hopeless at cryptic.

Please explain? in my best Pauline voice.

well I thought I’d go cryptic because if I said “it has such and such a flower and so and so leaves, then Bubba would have got it right there and then last night…

matterhorniron

A Rowan tree?

pepe is closest so far…

the leaves are bipinnate… see here:

I had to look up Rowan Tree…

orchid40 said:

A Rowan tree?

It’s a Mountain Ash, wrong!!

orchid40 said:

orchid40 said:

A Rowan tree?

It’s a Mountain Ash, wrong!!

still wrong…mountain ash nor rowan tree.

pain master said:

orchid40 said:

orchid40 said:

A Rowan tree?

It’s a Mountain Ash, wrong!!

still wrong…mountain ash nor rowan tree.

Yes PM, that’s what I meant!

pain master said:

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

I’m hopeless at cryptic.

Please explain? in my best Pauline voice.

well I thought I’d go cryptic because if I said “it has such and such a flower and so and so leaves, then Bubba would have got it right there and then last night…

Yellow flowers?

What colour are the blossoms, if any, PM?

Peltophorum pterocarpum??????

bubba louie said:

Peltophorum pterocarpum??????

no but I originally thought it was… then the trunk told me it wasn’t, distinctively different to a Peltophorum.

It hasn’t flowered yet but others in the same Family are often yellow, to orange, to red. I believe this one maybe gold.

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Peltophorum pterocarpum??????

no but I originally thought it was… then the trunk told me it wasn’t, distinctively different to a Peltophorum.

It hasn’t flowered yet but others in the same Family are often yellow, to orange, to red. I believe this one maybe gold.

I suppose it’s the yellow poinciana then.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Peltophorum pterocarpum??????

no but I originally thought it was… then the trunk told me it wasn’t, distinctively different to a Peltophorum.

It hasn’t flowered yet but others in the same Family are often yellow, to orange, to red. I believe this one maybe gold.

I suppose it’s the yellow poinciana then.

No, I said Gold…

More clues.

What about a Caesalpinia pulcherrima?

This one still has me stumped.

Looks like a powder puff bush…is it a tree after all?

I thought this thread has disintegfrated into chat.
Looks like a Tipuana.

pain master said:

If a Roman and a Swiss wandered on high and found a rusty nail, what Tree would they stumble upon?

I’m OK at cryptic, but I need to know if the clue refers to the common name or the botanical…?

Longy said:

I thought this thread has disintegfrated into chat.
Looks like a Tipuana.

That’s what I was thinking just now, as it holds up its’ flowers like candlebra, which could also be seen as rusty nails I guess…however I couldn’t remember the name…

Dinetta said:

Longy said:

I thought this thread has disintegfrated into chat.
Looks like a Tipuana.

That’s what I was thinking just now, as it holds up its’ flowers like candlebra, which could also be seen as rusty nails I guess…however I couldn’t remember the name…

Tipuana tipu then is my guess.
Weed alert.

It hasn’t flowered yet but others in the same Family are often yellow, to orange, to red. I believe this one maybe gold.

=======================

How does that match tipuana?

Gleditzia?

Gleditzia? ;; er Gleditsia?

If a Roman and a Swiss wandered on high and found a rusty nail, what Tree would they stumble upon?
+++++++++++++++++++++

Well, what are the mountains common to Italy and Switzerland…?

Dinetta said:

If a Roman and a Swiss wandered on high and found a rusty nail, what Tree would they stumble upon?
+++++++++++++++++++++

Well, what are the mountains common to Italy and Switzerland…?

Funnily enough

Alps really relates to all mountains..Alps/ oxy/ nail?

I think rusty nail might be an anagram…

Dinetta said:

I think rusty nail might be an anagram…

sturlynia?

Won’t come up on Google…

Might need to throw Alps into the mix…

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

I think rusty nail might be an anagram…

sturlynia?

australynptis? :)

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

I think rusty nail might be an anagram…

sturlynia?

australynptis? :)

LOL!

I’ve just been looking at the golden shower tree, Cassia something…not sure what it’s got to do with the clues, tho’…and from memory, the leaves are bigger…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

sturlynia?

australynptis? :)

LOL!

I’ve just been looking at the golden shower tree, Cassia something…not sure what it’s got to do with the clues, tho’…and from memory, the leaves are bigger…

I think Lian slyptus.. ;)

Dinetta said:

I think rusty nail might be an anagram…

The Matterhorn is the alp on the swiss/italian border.
iron is the rusty nail
i think

pepe said:

Dinetta said:

I think rusty nail might be an anagram…

The Matterhorn is the alp on the swiss/italian border.
iron is the rusty nail
i think

oxylon means iron wood rusty could be cider colour
sideroxylon?

does this matter if I horn in this way?

roughbarked said:

pepe said:

Dinetta said:

I think rusty nail might be an anagram…

The Matterhorn is the alp on the swiss/italian border.
iron is the rusty nail
i think

oxylon means iron wood rusty could be cider colour sideroxylon?
does this matter if I horn in this way?

umm – keep it simple – is that one side of ox or just the horn – no matter.
i spose the master could be being devious – most unlike him tho’ LOL.

roughbarked said:

pepe said:

Dinetta said:

I think rusty nail might be an anagram…

The Matterhorn is the alp on the swiss/italian border.
iron is the rusty nail
i think

oxylon means iron wood rusty could be cider colour
sideroxylon?

does this matter if I horn in this way?

Nah, I always did like fooling around with words…so did my late father, from whom I learnt the phrase “under the affluence of inchohol”…

So………..do we know the answer yet?

orchid40 said:

So………..do we know the answer yet?

No, but I’m still banking on tipuana, if that’s what I think it is…

No, tipuana is not what I’m thinking of…there’s a lot of blooms of this tree in town at the moment…hang on…

Dinetta said:

No, tipuana is not what I’m thinking of…there’s a lot of blooms of this tree in town at the moment…hang on…

this is it:

Peltophorum pterocarpum

After the flowers are gone, the flower spikes look like rusty nails…and the leaf is similar to PM’s photo…

Dinetta said:

orchid40 said:

So………..do we know the answer yet?

No, but I’m still banking on tipuana, if that’s what I think it is…

I don’t think so.

Dinetta said:

Dinetta said:

No, tipuana is not what I’m thinking of…there’s a lot of blooms of this tree in town at the moment…hang on…

this is it:

Peltophorum pterocarpum

After the flowers are gone, the flower spikes look like rusty nails…and the leaf is similar to PM’s photo…

I already tried that one.

bubba louie said:

Peltophorum pterocarpum??????

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

Peltophorum pterocarpum??????

I beg your pardon!!!! LOL

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

Peltophorum pterocarpum??????

Don’t quote me…that’s how it was spelt on the webpage that I looked up…

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

Peltophorum pterocarpum??????

see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltophorum_pterocarpum

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Peltophorum pterocarpum??????

no but I originally thought it was… then the trunk told me it wasn’t, distinctively different to a Peltophorum.

It hasn’t flowered yet but others in the same Family are often yellow, to orange, to red. I believe this one maybe gold.

something different about the trunk…tulip trees are always orange flowers, right?

Also, where did you find this tree? From the way you’re talking, you’ve been up close and personal with a specimen…

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

Peltophorum pterocarpum??????

see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltophorum_pterocarpum

I wasn’t questioning the spelling, just copied my own post to show I’d already suggested it.

bubba louie said:

I wasn’t questioning the spelling, just copied my own post to show I’d already suggested it.

Sorry, I misunderstood..

I still think it looks like a powderpuff plant..whatever that us…

sorry I have been absent for a few days… but I like where this is heading. Pomolo is the closest. She has managed to blend the Roman and the Alps into Caesalpinia, but she didn’t quite get the rest…

The trunk gives us one of its common names and the density of the timber gives us another common name plus the second part of its botanical name.

Should be easy now.

Caesalpinia Ferrea.
Leopard Tree

AKA as Brazilian Ironbark

That’s the one! Looks like O40 is buying this round?

A gorgeous specimen tree ideal for a parkland or Mangolia.

Lovely until you want to mow under it. I’ve gone right off them.

pain master said:

That’s the one! Looks like O40 is buying this round?

A gorgeous specimen tree ideal for a parkland or Mangolia.

Congratulations Orchid40!

These are very popular as street trees in the cities, you will see lots in inner city Brisbane, they are just so tough and provide the right amount of greenery…

Congratulations to Pomolo for guessing the cryptic clues… :D

bubba louie said:

Lovely until you want to mow under it. I’ve gone right off them.

What’s the problem? we mow under ours every week???

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Lovely until you want to mow under it. I’ve gone right off them.

What’s the problem? we mow under ours every week???

Wait until the seeds drop.

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Lovely until you want to mow under it. I’ve gone right off them.

What’s the problem? we mow under ours every week???

Wait until the seeds drop.

please explain?

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

What’s the problem? we mow under ours every week???

Wait until the seeds drop.

They’re very hard and tend to shoot out in all directions.

please explain?

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Wait until the seeds drop.

They’re very hard and tend to shoot out in all directions.

please explain?

I’ll let you know if they are a problem… ‘kay?

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

That’s the one! Looks like O40 is buying this round?

A gorgeous specimen tree ideal for a parkland or Mangolia.

Congratulations Orchid40!

These are very popular as street trees in the cities, you will see lots in inner city Brisbane, they are just so tough and provide the right amount of greenery…

Congratulations to Pomolo for guessing the cryptic clues… :D

My honesty makes me type that I did not work out the cryptic clues. I was just thinking of all the plants I could recall with the type of leaf in your pic. I have 2 leopard trees growing here. Next time you do a trivia I’m just going to go round my block by thought. We seem to have the same plants that you have inherited.

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

Congratulations to Pomolo for guessing the cryptic clues… :D

My honesty makes me type that I did not work out the cryptic clues. I was just thinking of all the plants I could recall with the type of leaf in your pic. I have 2 leopard trees growing here. Next time you do a trivia I’m just going to go round my block by thought. We seem to have the same plants that you have inherited.

Who cares? Just about every body else was searching the internet LOL, you searched your back yard… same difference in my books…

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

Congratulations to Pomolo for guessing the cryptic clues… :D

My honesty makes me type that I did not work out the cryptic clues. I was just thinking of all the plants I could recall with the type of leaf in your pic. I have 2 leopard trees growing here. Next time you do a trivia I’m just going to go round my block by thought. We seem to have the same plants that you have inherited.

Who cares? Just about every body else was searching the internet LOL, you searched your back yard… same difference in my books…

That didn’t come out right…what I meant was, in my opinion you did work out the cryptic clues but you used real world info (as in the leopard trees on your block) as opposed to those of us who searched the internet…I didn’t know the common name “Leopard tree”, as I had it confused with the London Plane tree and it looks nothing like that…which goes to show I have been misinformed for about 30 years now, which is how long those trees have been in the Brisbane CBD (outside the “old” Crest Hotel, for example)…

Dinetta said:

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

My honesty makes me type that I did not work out the cryptic clues. I was just thinking of all the plants I could recall with the type of leaf in your pic. I have 2 leopard trees growing here. Next time you do a trivia I’m just going to go round my block by thought. We seem to have the same plants that you have inherited.

Who cares? Just about every body else was searching the internet LOL, you searched your back yard… same difference in my books…

That didn’t come out right…what I meant was, in my opinion you did work out the cryptic clues but you used real world info (as in the leopard trees on your block) as opposed to those of us who searched the internet…I didn’t know the common name “Leopard tree”, as I had it confused with the London Plane tree and it looks nothing like that…which goes to show I have been misinformed for about 30 years now, which is how long those trees have been in the Brisbane CBD (outside the “old” Crest Hotel, for example)…

There you go D. Who said this forum wasn’t a learning excperience.

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

That’s the one! Looks like O40 is buying this round?

A gorgeous specimen tree ideal for a parkland or Mangolia.

Congratulations Orchid40!

These are very popular as street trees in the cities, you will see lots in inner city Brisbane, they are just so tough and provide the right amount of greenery…

Congratulations to Pomolo for guessing the cryptic clues… :D

My honesty makes me type that I did not work out the cryptic clues. I was just thinking of all the plants I could recall with the type of leaf in your pic. I have 2 leopard trees growing here. Next time you do a trivia I’m just going to go round my block by thought. We seem to have the same plants that you have inherited.

Pom, do you have an Eucalyptus sideroxylon?

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

Congratulations Orchid40!

These are very popular as street trees in the cities, you will see lots in inner city Brisbane, they are just so tough and provide the right amount of greenery…

Congratulations to Pomolo for guessing the cryptic clues… :D

My honesty makes me type that I did not work out the cryptic clues. I was just thinking of all the plants I could recall with the type of leaf in your pic. I have 2 leopard trees growing here. Next time you do a trivia I’m just going to go round my block by thought. We seem to have the same plants that you have inherited.

Pom, do you have an Eucalyptus sideroxylon?

No I don’t. I thought it was more suitable to a drier climate.