Acacia baileyana 'purpurea'

I have two trees I need identifying, please.

I should know the first purple tinged one as they are unusual here and there are only three in this area by the dams and I read once what they are. Sorry the pictures are not that clear as it was raining and I have had to delete the closeup shots. I didn't want to crop any more or they would be too fuzzy. :(





This one is in the same area and appears to be some strange kind of nut.



Many thanks in advance.

 

Nothing springs to mind LoL, on either.

Is no 1 purple new growth or flowers?,Presumably evergreen?

No 2 need a close up of the fruit and leaves, do you think that is evergreen as well?

 

Hello pete.

I'm thinking of an elm on the first one and they are new leaves, not flowers, and yes it's evergreen. The leaves are green, then grey then purple, assuming the grey ones were the purple ones from last year.

Do these pics help of the other one?





Me'thinks another trip in finer weather may be in order.

 

Elm? No 1.

No2, not something I've seen.
The fruits do have a vague look of rose hips, rosaceae,? perhaps.

 

No 1 wouldn`t be Acacia baileyana Purpurea, would it?

 

God, I should be shot at dawn, if not sooner.

I meant oak not elm. There is a Quercus rubra but it is red and the red comes at the end not the beginning as this purple/grey leafed one does.

Yes the other is like hips and there are wild roses up there, but this is a tree, there were two of them.

 

See where your coming from David.
There are lots of quercus, but I dont know any with purple new growth.

Apples and pears are the rose family LoL, not just roses.

 

Is No 2 a Mulberry?

 

Bit early for mulberries David?

 

No2 looks like Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)

 

The first one is definitely Acacia B.P, similar to mine except mine is all grey. There seems to be dead flower stalks on it Lol, keep an eye out for seed pods later.

 

http://www.panglobalplants.com/plant_nav/plant_code.php?show=Acacia+baileyana+'Purpurea'&picture=shrubs1781

Much as the colouring is similar, I don't think it's this and t'other half says definitely not. Also, we have never seen it bloom. Surely I would have recognised it had it been an Acacia ... or had my eyes closed due to the rain. :rolleyes:

Those dead flower stalks, strongy, are fresh new leaves.

... back up into the hills this week ...

 

By dead flower stalks I didn't mean the new purple growth, I could see some thin stalks at the end of the old growth. :confused:

If it is something else, it is a dead ringer for Acaia B.P

 

hello everybody. I've been lurking in the shadows of
the GC site for some time now, always watching but never uttering a word, so I thought it was about time I introduced myself ( so as not to be arrested for being some sort of voyeur ). LOL, could the second photo be a medlar ( Mespilus germanica ). If it is I seem to remember something about the fruit being very ripe ( ie starting to rot ) before it's edible.

 

Hello my learned friends.

David is absolutely spot on ... with strongy seconding him regarding the Acacia baileyana Purpurea ... my sincere apologies for ever doubting you. T'other half and I were quite surprised getting a closeup look at the tiny leaves. I have a pocketful of pods ... which none of us saw the other day. They were quite high up and the rain obviously was blinding us ...

Hello gardenmonkey. It's nice of you to come out of hiding after so long ... welcome to GC! I think you are spot on with the Medlar ... but I'll leave the experts to confirm that for fear I'll call it a plum or something. What these guys have to put up with with me.

Here's a couple more close-up pics of each ...





AND two more ID's please ...



... and closeup ...



And this one to the right of the Acacia bp ... is it another Acacia she asks in fear and trepidation?



And in case you don't look back in the Country Life thread, here is the location of these wonderful species where the authorities have made lovely picnic areas ...



[ 21. April 2008, 06:06 PM: Message edited by: Lady of Leisure ]