AusBonsai

Hi all,

In the pics below there is a strange growth on the tree.
Firstly who can correctly identify the tree?

Secondly who can correctly identify the strange growth>

PRIZE! Absolutely nothing unfortunately except a warm feeling for being first and right.

Grant

Swampy, seed pod. I actually have a few on one of my trees - thought it was a bit early though

Bougy Fan wrote:Swampy, seed pod. I actually have a few on one of my trees - thought it was a bit early though

Look closer at the pod!

Are you sure it is the pod of a swampy? Is it the right size and shape?

Grant

OOPS

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Japanese larch, and Something Wierd To Do With Sex Growing In Its Armpit. Which is seriously perverse. Grant, I'm surprised at you. You were such a Nice Boy.

Gavin

GavinG wrote:Japanese larch, and Something Wierd To Do With Sex Growing In Its Armpit. Which is seriously perverse. Grant, I'm surprised at you. You were such a Nice Boy.

Gavin

Not a Larch; Bougy Fan was very close first go.

Who ever said I was a nice boy?

Grant

How about Taxodium mucronatum ?

Bougy Fan wrote:How about Taxodium mucronatum ?

Correct!

It is not fully filled out yet but is of course the seed pod.

What i find strange is that it is hard up aginst the trunk. I have never seen that before.

Anyhow this tree was collected as seed itself in 1974 and is in fruit for the first time that I have observed.

Grant

Yah Well the swampy I have has got cones for the first time too. I didn't realise they grew all the way through summer before going brown and opening in winter Then again I only look at the park trees when they start shedding to see if I can collect some seed.