Searching for an answer for a year now: Can you ID this tree?

peecaboo

I've gone to every garden center in town, and no one can figure out what kind of tree this is.

It's in my yard in Southeast Florida, about 40 miles north of Miami. The tree is very large: it grows well above our one-story roof line, and spreads just as wide if it's not periodically cut back.

Leaves are opposite, pinnate and a little ruffley, with smooth edges, very much like a White Ash tree, except the bark is smooth. Flowers are light yellow and real tiny.

Every April, it sheds every single leaf, and then shortly afterwards, it drops billions of seed pods, which are shaped like lima beans, but about four times as big. I rake up about two wheel barrels full every week for a month or so. Most of those pods have about two 'beans' inside. They sprout easily and quickly.

The bark is smooth, more like a skin, and it doesn't peel. The rust color you see is from the sprinkler system, it's not the bark's color.

Several clear pictures are here: http://tiny.cc/uLaRk

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pawjordan

Korean Evodia
Evodia daniellii
Paul

Bernard Keays

Peecaboo,

My guess is Pongamia pinnata (Indian Beech Tree).

Do you have any pictures of the flowers?

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Bernie

Sean Freeman

Bernie I would agree the seeds certainly look like Mellitia pinnata but the description of the flowers as yellow does not quite fit, though you are right pics of said flowers would help a lot