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Miscellaneous => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: JTh on October 17, 2012, 09:47:44 PM
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Carol mentioned something about a second spring in another thread a couple of weeks ago, and I discovered that some trees and bushes are behaving strangely this autumn. I recently discovered that some of the wild pear trees around here are producing flower as if it is already spring again, I wonder what they will do next spring. I believe the one in the photos is what Lanfranchis & Sfikas calls Pyrus spinosa (= P. amygdaliformis, none of these names arefound in the IPNI Plant Lis, thought). They can be very spiny, and I have a couple in our garden that have been grafted, one with pears (producing much more than we can eat), and a second one with both pears and apples.
The other bush which seems to believe it is spring is a broom, which one I’m not quite sure, but maybe somebody can tell me? They are not spiny, the flours are fairly large, I don’t think the leaves were hairy. The one in the photo was probably nearly 3 m tall. (Photos taken with my phone camera.)
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See also my post about the unusual behaviour of my quince tree, under "Fruit and Vegetables".
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JTh, your broom looks like Senna corymbosa. It used to be called Cassia corymbosa.
Although the one in your photo, seems to have slightly more rounded leaves.
There is one in my village, outside the local Taverna.
Daisy
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Daisy and Jorun
I would say Colutea arborescens.
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Thank you, Daisy, but I tend to agree with Oron, Colutea arborescens was on top of my list of possible names.
And Alice, I saw your information about the strange behaviour of your quince, my obesrvation just did not fit the section 'Fruit and vegetables', but the phenomenon seems to be the same.