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31st October 2011, 06:55 PM #1Senior Member
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Tree Identification Guide & Help
Hi All,
I have some sort of tree in the front yard and have cut up a few limbs from it. It has made some very nice drawer handles and been used in a few of my projects now. So far I've had no joy in sluething the web to work out what sort of tree it is.
I have found some very useful tree identification guides based on the leaf structure etc. Pre-dominatly for America though. I found one online version that was very helpful, this is the link to it's online tree identification guide.
Anyway below is a couple of pictures of the tree in our yard, any ideas, from the above website looks like it could be in the cedar family?
The Branch Structure
The Trunk
Close up of the Trunk
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31st October 2011, 07:01 PM #2
Lookis like an imported pine to me as in not a native but it is a pine.
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31st October 2011, 08:22 PM #3Senior Member
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Thanks Woodkid, I forgot to include in the original post that any help in finding an online guide to tree identification of more than just the American tree species would be appreciated too.
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31st October 2011, 11:40 PM #4Senior Member
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Think you need a close up of the male/female cones and the needles/leaf scales to get a likely ID. To me the foliage is typical of a cypress species not a pine. Something in theCupressaceae anyway. Maybe if you look up that family you might find some candidates.
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1st November 2011, 11:03 AM #5Senior Member
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more pictures
The Leaf structure and a cone sitting on top.
And this is a close up (ish) shot of a branch on the tree, it's dead, but you can still see the structure of things. Unfortunatley the branches are all a bit higher up and hard to get close to with cutting them down
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1st November 2011, 01:01 PM #6Senior Member
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Definitely a Cypress spp. Foliage looks a lot like Cupressus arizonica (Arizona cypress) but the images for the bark on the net don't look too similar to the shot you posted. I found one photo that showed it to be a mix of smooth & flakey in its native habitat although in SA it could take on another form. Certainly the foliage colour is right and that species would prob do well in the dry SA climate. Likewise for Cupressus macrocarpa (Monterey cypress) which seem to have fissured hard bark and green foliage in most of the web images but does have some blue-grey foliage variants which may be horticultural cultivars.
That's my best shot.
Edit: Having said that, this shot of Cupressus bakeri seems right for the bark foliage looks similar but the cones are slightly less nobby over the surface. Actually this site shows just how variable the bark can be for a single species in diffferent habitats. Looking at the fruits I would lean more back toward C. arizonica
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5th November 2011, 02:53 AM #7
yep looks like C. arizonica. The wood smells just like Dettol
everything is something, for a reason:confused:
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