Thread: Help identify this tree

Hi Twosheds,
Going on the Bark, it appears to be a Pine of some kind.
Then when you look at the Canopy, I have never seen a Pine like that.
A better close up pic of the foliage wood most likely help.

WAG is its some type of Bloodwood but I got no idea what grows down there. Maybe Brown Bloodwood... But I stress that's a very wild guess. Nice looking log whatever it is.

Looks like a bloodwood. If it has urn shaped gum nuts then that would pretty much confirm the diagnosis.

Not that I am familiar with the species particularly but maybe Alectryon oleifolius? Bark doesn't look quite right compared to other images available on the web but leaves are approaching something similiar. This one seems unusually straight. Need something more definitive like fruits or flowers to ID it. It is on TTT's website Turning Trees Into Toothpicks

EDIT: Actually it looks more like Eremophila mitchellii. Also see images on TTT's site.

Thanks for the replies. Pampelmuse, I already have some Boonaree and False Sandalwood from the property and I'm pretty sure this tree is not either. John.G and artme, I didn't think it was a eucalypt but I could be wrong, I was thinking maybe an acacia or a relative of some sort. I haven't seen the tree in flower (or never noticed it before more likely) and I never thought to look on the ground to see what sort of seed pods were laying around.

When I took the photos in July there were a number of tree or shrub seedlings in proximity to this tree but I wasn't sure if they were suckers or seedlings from other trees which had already been cleared by the loader last year. This tree was just a bit too big for the loader to push so was left until after this years harvest. I have a photo of one of these seedlngs or suckers and after playing around with the zoom on the original photos the leaves appear to be similar to those of the tree.

I probably should have included this photo with the original post but better late than never.

Regards
Twosheds

That last picture really helps. All pics are consistent with Owenia acidula - emu apple.

Luke

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Does Emu Apple grow that far south? No matter, if it is emu apple you are a lucky boy!!

I have never seen an emu apple grow that big, emu apple also tends to be a more vivid green a bit darker shade than that one.

I was going by the whorled, pinnate leaves in the last picture. The distribution of emu apple shown on Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is probably pretty meaningful. It certainly shows the species occuring in the Moree Plains area.

Owenia acidula | Atlas of Living Australia

Twosheds. If you broke off any leaves or branchlets, was the sap milky?

Cliff. I agree that emu apple is generally smaller. I have seen examples of this species taller than 8m - just not many.

Well Phoracantha I think you have it. Emu Apple, I'd never heard of it. Thankyou for the identification. I've just done a bit of light reading and it is quite fascinating that it is so named due to its seed pod needing to pass through an emu's digestive system before the seed is able to germinate. I imagine that would also help in dispersing the seed pods far and wide.

Pampelmuse, I did go through TTIT's list at your suggestion but I think I had tunnel vision of 'acacia or similar' so I didn't even notice Emu Apple on his website. After Phoracantha's posts I went to back to TTIT and found it right in front of me.

Now what to do with the recovered log? Should I break down the log into boards straight away or would it be better to let it season a bit before milling?. I can store the log under cover on the property. I anticipate the tree will be felled straight after the grain harvest, middish November or so.

My plan for the milling was to cut the log into suitable lengths and bring it back home to the coast. Then break it down into boards with a 14" bandsaw and my mighty stihl 009L chainsaw with all of a 15" bar.

Anybody with advice as to do's and don'ts with my plan?

Regards
Twosheds


Edit: I didn't break any leaves or branches off the seedlings so I can't say if it had milky sap. I will check when I go back in a couple of weeks.

Originally Posted by twosheds

Well Phoracantha I think you have it. Emu Apple, I'd never heard of it. Thankyou for the identification. I've just done a bit of light reading and it is quite fascinating that it is so named due to its seed pod needing to pass through an emu's digestive system before the seed is able to germinate. I imagine that would also help in dispersing the seed pods far and wide.

Pampelmuse, I did go through TTIT's list at your suggestion but I think I had tunnel vision of 'acacia or similar' so I didn't even notice Emu Apple on his website. After Phoracantha's posts I went to back to TTIT and found it right in front of me.

Now what to do with the recovered log? Should I break down the log into boards straight away or would it be better to let it season a bit before milling?. I can store the log under cover on the property. I anticipate the tree will be felled straight after the grain harvest, middish November or so.

My plan for the milling was to cut the log into suitable lengths and bring it back home to the coast. Then break it down into boards with a 14" bandsaw and my mighty stihl 009L chainsaw with all of a 15" bar.

Anybody with advice as to do's and don'ts with my plan?

Regards
Twosheds


Edit: I didn't break any leaves or branches off the seedlings so I can't say if it had milky sap. I will check when I go back in a couple of weeks.

But the bark photo (TTIT) does not match the one you show in the photos.