My Tree is very unusual looking and I have never seen anything like it anywhere. I have looked on the internet hours searching for something like it.

At this time it is approxiametly 6 1/2 feet tall. It has wavy branches that all go in different angles. The foliage on it looks like marijuana plant leaves. It doesn't have a lot of foliage on each branch. After I put it out in the spring and it gets all its leaves it will then develop a flower type bloom that looks sort of tubular/figerlike and is red in color. After the flower is there a while it will produce a stem from it that grows a large seed on the end of it. I have planted the seeds and have grown more little trees. It is a very graceful looking tree. There is something that is very unusual about it in that if you break off a leaf or bump the bark hard it will bleed clear sap and when it hits a surface it turns red like blood. It likes heat and full sun but will not survive after the fall and I bring it inside before the first frost. We have temperatures here in the summer that get up to 100 degress Fahrenheit sometimes and is very humid. It doesn't like to be overwatered and if it gets too much water the leaves will turn gold and fall off. When I bring it inside for the winter the tree goes into dormancy and all the leaves turn gold and fall off. It stays bare all winter until I put it back outside again.

I would really like to know if anyone has any information on this tree. Thanks so much.

You can post the image on Gardenweb's Oz Garden Gallery - but make sure you tell us that it is there and what it is posted under.

I would also suggest that you post this message on the Australian Native Plants Forum - there is a link at the top of the Trees and Shrubs page.

Whatever it is, it sounds fascinating.

I am not 100% sure about this, but it sounds like it could be a Brachychiton acerifolius, common names include; Illawara flame tree, Australian flame tree and Flame tree.

Perhaps you can use this name on Google and see if you can find any information.

If you can't, please post again or email me and I will endeavour to find some sites for you to check out.

Please let us know either way....I'm curious!

Cheers,
Dee.

Sorry I didn't get a photo. Had camera problems, but I did find out the tree was a Staghorn Sumac (lots of photos on internet) To the above person, the leaves resemble marijuana, but the tree doesn't look like the marijuana plant.