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27th May 2011, 02:54 AM
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| I'm new here so be nice Join Date: May 2011 Location: Phoenix
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|  Never seen a tree like this
We bought the house in 2001, and nobody ever identified this tree in our front yard. It recently has been having more dead branches and I would like to know what the tree is. Someone once suggested it was a Chinese species. When I get the trunk wet it is green and fairly smooth. This is like no other tree in Phoenix that I have seen. Any thoughts out there? |
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27th May 2011, 04:12 AM
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| I'm new here so be nice Join Date: May 2011 Location: Phoenix
Posts: 3
| Re: Never seen a tree like this
Here is an additional picture with some water splashed on the trunk.
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27th May 2011, 05:50 AM
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| Mature tree Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Victoria Australia
Posts: 242
| Re: Never seen a tree like this
Is it a Liriodendron tulipifera - tulip tree?
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27th May 2011, 05:53 AM
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| I'm new here so be nice Join Date: May 2011 Location: Phoenix
Posts: 3
| Re: Never seen a tree like this
There are no flowers that show, the bark is not like any tulip tree I've seen and the leaves are not quite the same.
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31st May 2011, 03:51 AM
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| Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Alabama
Posts: 116
| Re: Never seen a tree like this
It may be a tungoil tree, Vernicia fordii (Hemsl.) Airy-Shaw, which is of Chinese origin. The lobed leaves are characteristic of a sapling of this species and there are a couple glands at the junction of the leaf blade and petiole (that attaches the leaf to the trunk).
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31st May 2011, 12:16 PM
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| Mature tree  Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Sydney
Posts: 320
| Re: Never seen a tree like this
It could be Firmiana simplex (Chinese Parasol tree). That green bark is a characteristic o' that species.
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