| I have uploaded a scanned image of some leaves to the Oz Garden Image forum under the heading "Identification Please".
The leaves are from 3 seedlings, trees I think, which have generously popped up in a section of my garden. This bit of garden had home-made compost dug in in spring and was mulched with the fine stuff from the bottom of a wood heap. This narrows the choice down to anything from a tropical fruit to an import from the wild :-)
The juvenile leaves, first 4 to 6, of all three were typical gum tree shape (the bottom leaf in the image is one) and then the leaf shape changed. One of the seedlings has the heavily indented maple-like leaf and the other two have the rounded, three lobe shaped leaf. The leaves are all thick and course like a gum tree but have no particular smell if crushed. The red colouring of the leaf stems seems to age quite quickly. The backs of the leaves are the same colour as the fronts and there is no difference in texture. The veins are quite prominent on both sides.
To give an idea of size, these leaves were scanned using a sheet of A4 paper as a background - the width of the image is the same as the width of the paper.
The stem beneath soil level neatly bulges out into an elongated oval (much like a stumpy carrot) for about 8 cms and the roots grew from the bottom.
I moved the three plants into pots and the move didn't seem to affect them at all.
I am intrigued with the difference in leaf forms and would love to know what they are. | 
