Thread: Tree ID Please?

Am So sorry would have been nice to post the pictures right? well...here they are loll

Without further details such as flowers etc it's hard to tell. The bark however looks very much like radiata pine. As you say, the smell should give a lot away.

I think what you have is an ornamental Pine, possibly a cypress, you see them in yards of older homes, they have that very thick dense foliage that appears to be in flat section.

I do not believe it to be toxic.

try googling ornamental pine trees??

It will turn but will need to be seasoned or rough turn wet and stuff the form with dry shavings and put in a box filled with dry shavings to season.

Jeff

I reckon its a cypress, look at the flat foliage in pic 1. Turns well, can be a bit boring.

Thank You

I don't think any of the above!

The single bit of foliage I can see is out of focus, but it loks like flattened, scaly neeedles, in which case you have one of the cedars. The wood should be mildly or strongly aromatic - good for lining boxes....

Cheers,

The Sad part of this whole thing is the guy I got them off doesnt know what kind of tree it was too loll but yes it resembles cypress I think but yet again it has a aroma about it I could sit there and sniff it all day smells so nice, or maybe it is a kind of cedar? I dont know, there is a lot of dark yellow sap on it if that helps.
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From the small leaves you can see, I would say a cypress, but possibly a native cypress, Callitris - just from that scaly bark. However the exotic cedar or cypress mentioned could also be what it is

At the risk of maintaining an argument over slim evidence, I would still like to make the case for either a Cedar or possibly a Juniper. The small bit of foliage that appears in pic 1 of Mrs B's post looks flat with scale-like leaves, to my eye. Compare with pic 1 below. Some Junipers, which are also favoured as ornamentals, have superficially similar foliage.

Cypress have small flattened needles attached to the branchlets in round whorls (pic 2).

Our native Callitris, which is in the cupressaceae family, but actually NOT a Cypress, also has tiny needles in whorls, (pic 3).

When posting tree pics for ID, the 3Fs (flowers fruits & foliage) usually give the best clues. Bark & wood alone can be very misleading ........

Cheers,

Awesome! IanW!!! that first pic is what it is I'm sure of it, I would have loved to have pics of the foliage but what i have in the pic is the only foliage on the whole trunks, but I am almost certain it is the one in your first picture, thank you
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It's more likely a Lawson cypress, Chamaecyparis lawsoniana and variety there of. The bark and small section of stem suggests that its Lawson cypress. However, most of the time more of the tree is needed for a more formal identification; leaves, branch, cone, section of wood, area found growing and the more the merrier. What suburb was the tree growing and what was it's base diameter; Thuja in Australia, grows very slowly and in the areas that it may best grow (Vermont near Mitcham Victoria) there once were some 30" through at the base, but the trunk tapered rapidly there after? The fact that the picture shows a stem suggests that it has intermediate growth that is reserves for very few coniferous trees of which Lawson cypress is definitely one. Hope this points you closer to the target.

I reckon Ivan is on the mark. The foliage of Chamaecyparis is very like that of the Thujas, which perhaps explains its alternative name of "Port Orford Cedar". And it is a very popular horticultural species.

Just reinforces the difficulties of id-ing trees & wood with limited physical evidence. Urban trees are especially hard because when grown in unusual environments, they can develop quite differently from their normal habit.

Cheers,

its a cypres i hav the exate same tree in my backyard and my house is 60 years old and seeing that bark and the cypress foliage its a cypress