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Guess what this is 38 - now solved
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Alisdair
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Guess what this is 38 - now solved
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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.
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Alisdair Aird
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JTh
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January 03, 2013, 09:41:08 PM »
Metasequoia glyptostroboides
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Alisdair
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January 03, 2013, 09:52:36 PM »
No, Jorun!
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Alisdair Aird
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Jill S
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January 04, 2013, 12:50:20 AM »
Swamp Cypress ?
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Alisdair
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January 04, 2013, 05:10:28 AM »
Another almost look-alike - but no!
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Alisdair Aird
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westyboy
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January 04, 2013, 10:23:57 AM »
eucalyptus ?
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January 04, 2013, 10:37:19 AM »
Yew?
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David Bracey
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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.
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I have gardened in sub-tropical Florida, maritime UK, continental Europe and the Mediterranean basin, France. Of the 4 I have found that the most difficult climate for gardening is the latter.
Jill S
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January 04, 2013, 10:52:41 PM »
Arbutus ?
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Alisdair
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January 05, 2013, 09:12:52 AM »
Not eucalyptus, not yew, not arbutus, and not Singapore. Actually growing in and native to temperate areas.
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Alisdair Aird
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pamela
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January 05, 2013, 09:27:43 AM »
Podocarpus totara
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Min temp 5c max temp 38c Rainfall 550 mm
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JTh
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January 05, 2013, 10:37:11 AM »
Melaleuca
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Miriam
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January 05, 2013, 12:22:43 PM »
Acer?
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pamela
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January 05, 2013, 02:29:45 PM »
Dacrydium cupressinum
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Jávea, Costa Blanca, Spain
Min temp 5c max temp 38c Rainfall 550 mm
"Who passes by sees the leaves;
Who asks, sees the roots."
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Annie
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January 06, 2013, 12:09:32 AM »
Fuchsia excorticata ?
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