Tree ID Required

Think she meant for you to ID, Strongy!

 

Okay, seems like it's only you pete ... winging their way to you over the weekend.

Of course, if anyone else and listening in ...

PM me your details ...

 

Thanks LOL.

 

Hello Strongy wherever you may be ...

I am posting this on behalf of pete as I have both seeds and pods and he has only seeds. He's not sure it's Acacia leucocepala ...



.... over to you pete to explain and sorry this has taken so long, my friend, but I've been multi-tasking here! Hope the picture is clear enough as well.

 

Thanks LOL,
Are you out there Strongy?
I just thought they didn't look like acacia seeds to me, they are brown and just slightly smaller than the albizia seed you sent me.
I thought as you are so familiar with the plant and presumably the seed you could well recognise them or not.

 

Just for good measure,

 

Been visiting aged parent yesterday.
I haven't any ripe seed here to compare with, only the seed in the unripe pods on my tree. they may still ripen but are only turning light brown at the moment. Not all Acacia seeds are black, as you know, the Karoo seed are brown similar to Albizia in colour but I still think LoL's tree is Leucocephala.
The plot thickens! :D

 

Ok thanks strongy.

 

Since we're here on ID things, pete, the Podranea / Pandorea seeds I sent were in pack I had that I didn't relabel.

They are actually the Pandorea jasminoides. It's a lovely climber, evergreen here out of frost, and has clusters of pink trumpet like flowers with a wine-coloured throat and a delicate scent. I don't know if you can grow it there but maybe it could clamber around your greenhouse?

 

I do have a pandorea pandorana, (wonga wonga vine), guess where that originates? :D that just about survives outside but gets cut back pretty badly by frost.
I also have a podranea ricasoliana in the greenhouse but its not particually happy.
Now I assume yours is related to these or might even be the same plant by another name.
Either way I will probably give it a go, if only to see if it resembles what I already have.

 

The one I sent is what you have, the Wonga, Wonga Vine ... goodness, what a name!

I also have the P ricasoliana which goes absolutely beserk here and as far as I know is the hardier of the two ???? Maybe yours should not be in the greenhouse?

For WW vine blooms in the summer here and the Pink Trumpet Vine in the late Autumn winter, through light frosts.

Hope you can get the Tecomaria going as it's beautiful and can withstand some frost ... again you may have to cut it back.

The P ricasoliana and Tecomaria, once established, are drought tolerant, the WW vine not so.

Keep me post on how they go.