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Title: Guess what this is 38 - now solved
Post by: Alisdair on January 03, 2013, 06:29:32 PM

Here's another, quite a surprise (and hardly mediterranean). Probably misleading clue, this trunk is nearly a metre in circumference.

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38
Post by: JTh on January 03, 2013, 09:41:08 PM

Metasequoia glyptostroboides?

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38
Post by: Alisdair on January 03, 2013, 09:52:36 PM

No, Jorun!

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38
Post by: Jill S on January 04, 2013, 12:50:20 AM

Swamp Cypress ?

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38
Post by: Alisdair on January 04, 2013, 05:10:28 AM

Another almost look-alike - but no!

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38
Post by: westyboy on January 04, 2013, 10:23:57 AM

eucalyptus ?

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38
Post by: JTh on January 04, 2013, 10:37:19 AM

Yew?

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38
Post by: David Bracey on January 04, 2013, 04:55:35 PM

Looking at the surroundings the pic was taken in a "tropical " environment.  Singapore? However that does not help identify it.

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38
Post by: Jill S on January 04, 2013, 10:52:41 PM

Arbutus ?

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38
Post by: Alisdair on January 05, 2013, 09:12:52 AM

Not eucalyptus, not yew, not arbutus, and not Singapore. Actually growing in and native to temperate areas.

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38
Post by: pamela on January 05, 2013, 09:27:43 AM

Podocarpus totara

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38
Post by: JTh on January 05, 2013, 10:37:11 AM

Melaleuca?

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38
Post by: Miriam on January 05, 2013, 12:22:43 PM

Acer?

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38
Post by: pamela on January 05, 2013, 02:29:45 PM

Dacrydium cupressinum

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38
Post by: Annie on January 06, 2013, 12:09:32 AM

Fuchsia excorticata ?

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38
Post by: Alisdair on January 07, 2013, 04:40:44 PM

Well done, Annie! The amazing Tree Fuchsia, Fuchsia excorticata, which we saw in New Zealand, particularly in the forests on the slopes of Mount Taranaki (Mount Egmont), North Island.

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38 - now solved
Post by: pamela on January 07, 2013, 05:12:31 PM

Lovely picture of New Zealand Bush Alistair. Very typical .  I am really surprised to hear of a tree fuschia with trunk of 1 metre.....

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38 - now solved
Post by: JTh on January 07, 2013, 06:19:25 PM

No wonder I couldn't guess this one, I have never heard of such a fuchsia.

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38 - now solved
Post by: westyboy on January 07, 2013, 06:57:00 PM

Nice one Alisdair, I've never spent so much time googling

Roy

Title: Re: Guess what this is 38 - now solved
Post by: Annie on January 07, 2013, 08:15:08 PM

We saw Fuchsia excorticata in NZ, South Island, in the damp forests of Fiorland National Park, on the slopes of Key Summit.
Flowers can grow directly on the trunk, as shown on the picture.

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-mkDyw-SQP7c/UOsIq41XtlI/AAAAAAAAGFU/iPBgLYqV_j0/s400/_NKN4822.jpg)