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2nd July 2013, 05:27 PM #1Senior Member
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Tree Identification help
I found this tree stump outside someones yard, anyone know what tree it was? I know it's not indigenous to South Africa but I have no idea what it is. It's a smallish tree, probably about 5m in height, I think it's from the USA.
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2nd July 2013, 07:29 PM #2
No picture attached.
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2nd July 2013, 07:39 PM #3
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2nd July 2013, 07:45 PM #4
Got it now, ta.
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2nd July 2013, 07:48 PM #5
Interesting but I have no idea.
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2nd July 2013, 07:58 PM #6GOLD MEMBER
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Tree Identification help
Hi,
I am a botanist in Australia. To really identify any plant one needs the distinctive parts o the plant. These normally include flowers and leaves, though sometimes the leaves and bark will be adequate if one knows about where the plant grows natually, how big it grows etc. Do you have any of that information or photos? When you have only a stump like that from a garden grown plant it is probably only the people that grew it that can - possibly - tell you. Good luck.
Regards
David
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2nd July 2013, 09:17 PM #7Skwair2rownd
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Red Hoonoze. Ridgy didge.
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2nd July 2013, 09:51 PM #8
Looks more like Beena to me.
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2nd July 2013, 10:44 PM #9Senior Member
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They grow all over Bloemfontein but is considered an invasive plant.
I found one on street view:
https://maps.google.co.za/?ll=-29.117037,26.165142&spn=0.013422,0.01796&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=-29.117152,26.165119&panoid=OOtyVUBsHSGQ5MvwGhAhhQ&cbp=12,329.11,,0,0.05
that whole street is actually lined with them.
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2nd July 2013, 11:26 PM #10
Looks like a Cassia, does it get heaps of yellow flowers?
Cassia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=C...w=1600&bih=779Cliff.
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3rd July 2013, 12:29 AM #11Senior Member
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It does look similar to the cassia but I don't recall ever seeing one with bright yellow flowers.. I could be wrong though. The leaves look almost exactly like the Senna siamea, just a little more roundish.
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3rd July 2013, 05:17 PM #12Senior Member
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How do I go about drying this thing? Any ideas what I can make out of it?
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4th August 2014, 04:37 PM #13Senior Member
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I eventually found out what wood this is, Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia).
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11th August 2014, 10:17 PM #14Intermediate Member
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I don't know what it is – but it may not be black locust.
I collect small pieces of timber and the heartwood of the piece of black locust I have is lighter than what is in your photo.
The images that come up when I did a Google search under black locust are also lighter.
What made you think it was black locust?
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13th August 2014, 06:36 PM #15Senior Member
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The photos in my first post does actually make the heartwood appear darker than it really is. I was at a local nursery buying a few seedlings for the garden when I saw the exact same tree which had a little sign on it saying that it was a Black Locust tree and not indigenous to South Africa. I saw a small piece in halve on the bandsaw and it does look like black locust, it is also really really hard and damn heavy. I could be wrong though.
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