Street Trees.

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Is it just me or can anyone else see something wrong here.

This street is about 1km long in a new subdivision area in Baulkham Hills Shire. It was an old farming area. Second pic is opposite the first one.

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Eric Frei

LOL, I thought Queenslanders were dumb!

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Gunslinger

I agree, dumb is an apt description. How many of these will survive being hit by cars?

Jeff Darby

There doing the same thing in Stanhope Gardens, over the ridge. All it takes is a little distraction to near on hit these things. They get "The Bozo Award" from me.
There's plenty of room in the west, no need for this

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It must be one of those Obstacle Courses, for doing a Road Test for getting a Driver's Licence, or for a Good game of Chicken. Bruce.

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atleast they left plenty of room for the roots to grow/

What kind of tree is that with those beautiful roots?
How many got axed to build the community?
Could they have preserved more of the specimens and still accomplished there objective of making money building houses?

one of those was not retorical.

Done it

Morton Bay Fig, that's what they planted.

Ficus macrophylla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It is best known for its beautiful buttress roots, which are also known for damaging municipal footpaths.

Eric Frei

You kidding, I was trying to suss out what they planted but surely they didn't plant figs!

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Done it

Yep.

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JohN Dee

I bet it was the bloody engineer or architects idea to plant them there like that with THAT species. In my experience, the two above professions tend to over ride any council decisions (no matter how logical they may seem...) quite even possibly the mayors too...

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Are you sure they're not Magnolia's?

kiwi_tree_steve

id say Magnolia grandiflora, bull bay Magnolia are the trees that have been planted.

the bigger tree.... accros the road i guess, looks like a fig, not real sure on these ones, but id say Ficus macrophylla is right.

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or Ficus rubiginosa?

Done it

I think you're right, it was raining and I just thought they were figs like the old ones from the farm. They had gums in the other streets.

Even then I've seen some big roots on Magnolias.

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Eric Frei

Lets see, the Ekkastimate Time Line


3 years chlorotic and necrosis of leaves

5 years Broken branches, deadwood, borers sap suckers and up to 50% defoliated

10 Years most will be dead.

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Apocalypsse

How about a percentage of those cleaned up by drivers before those 3 years?

Eric Frei

Did you ever as a kid be cycling along reading the latest comic magazine and plough straight into a pole or something?

Come on, dont BS, your riding along then BAM, bloody pole or fire hydrant!

It's gonna happen, but could be debated as a traffic calming device however putting them both sides of the road makes it a little more hairy especially if a truck is coming the other way and you got the sun in your eyes.

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Therrin

WTH! You Aussies are a strange lot. You always plant your trees out in the street like that?

Goofballs. The street is for driving in.

Btw, whats up with the limb on this tree? Is that normal?

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Eric Frei

Dude, those trees got limbs like anacondas from some crazy movie!

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Apocalypsse

When cars park people are going to avoid them forcing oncoming traffic to swerve and thats when it will happen, BAM, bye bye tree.

Done it

The way that estate is it's the only place you could plant them, wall to wall houses. Only reason I was there was the main road was blocked and I was trying to find a way around it.

I couldn't believe the place had changed so much. And that side of the road is Blacktown Council not Baulkham Hills, they would have put a townhouse there not a tree.

Don't forget the garbage trucks, hope there're better drivers than the ones around here.

Therrin

Ekka, At first glance I had thought there was a huge ingrown crack on the underside of that branch. But now that I look at it it's prolly just a shadow.


I forgot about garbage trucks....mail carriers, tow trucks, street sweepers. Might not be so bad if you're trying to shake off a hot pursuit though.

Eric Frei

LOL, how to piss the street sweeper off.

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Done it

Actually it's water. There was some heavy rain for a while [reason for the closed road] and it was just starting to run down the branches.

The black spots on the lowest branch on the right are wet spots. I had to zoom another pic to see it clearly.

Now I'm not posting any more pics until I do that first.

askmeall

I think Magnolia grandiflora as well . lots of them in tulsa