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Posted: Jul/08/2007 4:22 PM PST
ok...Chinese Dove Tree? |
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Posted: Jul/08/2007 11:19 PM PST
Quote: Originally posted by fozbot3 ok...Chinese Dove Tree?Sorry Foz, Dove Tree, Handkerchief Tree and Ghost Tree are all common names for Davidia involucrata. |
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Posted: Jul/09/2007 10:01 AM PST
oops...i didn't see that Triple D already posted that one. 
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Posted: Jul/09/2007 1:14 PM PST
Here is a picture of the tree with the leaves hanging down as though hung on a clothsline. Attachments:  |
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Posted: Jul/09/2007 2:02 PM PST
Zelkova sinica? |
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Posted: Jul/09/2007 11:10 PM PST
Quote: Originally posted by DidiereaDream Zelkova sinica?Nope, not Zelkova sinica. |
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Posted: Jul/10/2007 1:23 PM PST
Tetracentron sinense - Chinese Tetracentron? |
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Posted: Jul/10/2007 1:29 PM PST
Quote: Originally posted by fozbot3 Tetracentron sinense - Chinese Tetracentron?Hurray!! You got it Foz. If you look closely you can see the spurs from which the common name is deerived: Spur Leaf. Tetracentron sinense is a flowering plant, the sole species in the genus Tetracentron. It is also often considered the sole species in the family Tetracentraceae, though some botanists include it in the family Trochodendraceae together with the very distinct genus Trochodendron. It is native to southern China and the eastern Himalaya, where it grows at altitudes of 1100-3500 m in a temperate climate; it has no widely used common name in English, though is sometimes called "spur-leaf". It is a tree growing to 20-40 m tall. The leaves are deciduous (the Flora of China reporting it as evergreen is an error), borne singly at the apex of short spur shoots, each leaf dark green, broad heart-shaped, 5-13 cm long and 4-10 cm broad, with a rugose surface and a serrated margin. The spur shoots bear a one leaf each year, slowly lengthening with each subsequent year. The flowers are inconspicuous, yellowish green, without petals, produced on slender catkins 10-15 cm long; each flower is 1-2 mm diameter. The fruit is a follicle 2-5 mm diameter, containing 4-6 seeds. Tetracentron shares with Trochodendron the feature, very unusual in angiosperms, of lacking vessel elements in its wood. This has long been considered a very primitive character, resulting in the classification of these two genera in a basal position in the angiosperms; however, genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has shown it to be in a less basal position (early in the eudicots), suggesting the absence of vessel elements is a secondarily evolved character, not a primitive one. Attachments:  |
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Posted: Jul/10/2007 11:08 PM PST
All hail Foz!!!!! |
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Posted: Jul/11/2007 7:29 AM PST
Thank GOD somebody finally got it. |
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