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rough-bark apple tip drowth?

Posted by gardenlen s/e qld aust (My Page) on
Fri, Jan 20, 06 at 21:07

g'day,

as i know it we have a tree on site called the 'rough-bark apple' aka 'angophora floribunda'.

at present these trees are putting on a flush of new tip/leaf growth, there are a significent number of trees i refer to here so here is the question:

all trees almost equaly are either showing tip growth colour of a lemon/green or yellow/green appearance or either a ruset/red-green appearance it is quiet pretty to see.

does this signify that there could be 2 different species of this tree? or is this a natural anomily?

in all other species observatiosn tip growths a pretty much the same colour eg.,. blue-gums, iron-barks etc.,. all ahve their own colour ranges.

we ahd a tree audit done and we are supposed to have the following 2 trees on site as well:

'Angophora subvelutina - broad-leaved apple'
'Angophora leiocarpa - smooth barked apple'

to repeat the two examples i ask about look the same to me, they are somewhat untidy growth tree with rough bark.

tia

len

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RE: rough-bark apple tip drowth?

Funny you write this because I was just thinking the same thing. The Angopheras around me are in these phases too. The older trees have just defoliated and are regrowing their adult leaves, the rusty red ones. The younger trees have just flowered and are replete with a flush of juvenille leaves. These leaves remind me of wattle phyllodes. Sometimes there are even pinnate leaves on the suckers that grow up from the roots. Maybe someone has an explanation for all of this.

It must have been great to name any tree floribunda.

Neil


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RE: rough-bark apple tip growth?

hope so neil?

with our trees i think they had flowered some time back but at present this is all a new flush of growth for me inicating some good rain on the way, but trees of the same stature/age no matter what height are displaying these 2 different colour patterns even when they are all but side by side.

and although not everyones fave' tree they are the message that tells me that where they grow has a good clean aquafa they are one tree that wants it right or they won't be there.

len


 
 

 

 


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