Unusual

Eric Frei

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Fishman

Very unusual tree! Quite similar to Barbados Cherry exept the trunk bark has me stumped. No pun intended. Fish

sueann

It doesn't look very healthy does it, with spots and burns all over the leaves.

The leaves look a bit like my ficus tree leaves. Fabulous texture in the roots though, I like things like texture in trees.

Fishman

would you happen to know if it bleeds white sticky sap like most ficus? The trunk is very similar to a ficus i've seen here a few times ( I do not recall the common or the latin )

jmcg.insight.gardens

reminds me of a Pittosporum, none I'm familiar with, same leaf texture and similar leaf arrangement. Bark would fit. Any tomentose on young growth....?

No fruit?

I'll do some research tomorrow with the books.

regards Julie

Eric Frei

It has either just flowered (but I doubt it) or is about to, have a look at the 3rd picture carefully.

Also new growth is nice and clean.

It's crook coz it's way to close to the salt water wind I'd say and doesn't like it much.

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Fishman

From what I am seeing in my "Exotica", series four I am leaning towards African Ficus sycomorus. There are a few of these around south florida.The proximity to salt water as Ekka stated would provide the detrimentle effects to damge and stunt leaves as those in pristine conditions show larger and more robust leaves and overall canopy, if in fact it is one. Fishman

Eric Frei

Have a look at the tree in this other thread.

The two trees are side by side.

interesting

One was in fruit the other not, leaves were similar but slightly different, rest pretty much the same. Likely the same species but one is way crook.

I posted them as two different threads to try to prevent bias in the decision.

Here's a picture of the two tree side by side. The tree on the left is the crook one, the tree on the right doing better.

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Fishman

Ekka I agree, the similar anatomical traits storngly suggest they are the same species. I can also see a canopy to my extreme right with similar traits to both. Do you know if there are natural cross pollenating or hybrid occurences in ficus? South florida has more exotic than native trees and along with them an incredible spectrum of exotic entomological species. I have seen this this occur in many varieties of palms here and some angiosperms. I'm thinking why not ficus?

Davo The Terrible

I don't think they are Ficus - these pictures show non-ficus flower buds, and the pictures in the "interesting" thread show a "valved" type of fruit.
Does anyone have a copy of the book "Trees and Shrubs in Rainforests of NSW & Southern QLD"? Keying it out might help.