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courty
09-12-2012, 10:54 AM
Thought I'd start a thread for plant ID
This is a small non descript looking tree about 2mtrs high that has just come out with these stunning flowers all over the trunk and branches



http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c75/gcourt/photo-24.jpg

Kathryn
09-12-2012, 04:42 PM
i dunno but its rather awesome

Redeye
09-12-2012, 06:37 PM
me either - i thought it might be a brachychiton for some reason, but....no real idea

PaulG
09-12-2012, 09:55 PM
Got me stumped....

Bgs
09-12-2012, 10:23 PM
Courty does it have a red heart shaped leaf ?

ian
09-12-2012, 10:26 PM
Pink-flowered Doughwood-Melicope elleryana - Pink Euodia
http://www.redbubble.com/people/marghyde/works/6280589-little-evodia-flower

Bgs
09-12-2012, 10:31 PM
Pink-flowered Doughwood-Melicope elleryana - Pink Euodia
http://www.redbubble.com/people/marghyde/works/6280589-little-evodia-flower

Well done Ian :clap::clap:

courty
09-12-2012, 10:46 PM
yay Ian,judging by those pics I had better keep it pruned.
The Flowers are really spectacular in the flesh

PaulG
09-12-2012, 11:16 PM
Courty does it have a red heart shaped leaf ?

I was wondering that too. That would be a Cercis sp I think.

Bgs
09-12-2012, 11:30 PM
I was wondering that too. That would be a Cercis sp I think.

That is where I was headed, but the flowers don't seem to have the exposed stamens like they do in courty's photo

courty
09-12-2012, 11:43 PM
Definitely the Doughwood,I hadn't taken any notice of it until it flowered this week.
It's the tree at the very back of the pic


http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c75/gcourt/photo-27.jpg

ian
10-12-2012, 06:18 AM
amazing how often we can walk past a plant not noticing them or sometimes even think why do they have that ugly thing there then they flower and we suddenly notice them :)
http://keys.trin.org.au/key-server/data/0e0f0504-0103-430d-8004-060d07080d04/media/Html/taxon/Melicope_elleryana.htm