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Is this some sort of bottle tree?

BigFrond

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Jerry@TreeZoo Grand Master

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The trunk sure looks like it.  Do you have a close-up of the leaves?

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Cycadcenter Experienced

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Brachyciton rupestris - Queensland Bottle tree

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This is a photo of a rupestris used as a street tree in Taroom, Central Queensland.

Cultivated trees tend to be shorter and fatter in cultivation.

Now living the life in Childers, Queensland.

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(Cycadcenter @ Sep. 13 2006,13:54)

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Brachyciton rupestris - Queensland Bottle tree

TAROOMRUPESTRIS.jpg

This is a photo of a rupestris used as a street tree in Taroom, Central Queensland.

Cultivated trees tend to be shorter and fatter in cultivation.

Fat bottom trees you make the rockin' world go round, or words to similar effect.

Hey, how about a pic of the container?  What container?  Is my brain fried . . . . ?

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(Cycadcenter @ Sep. 13 2006,13:54)

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Brachyciton rupestris - Queensland Bottle tree

TAROOMRUPESTRIS.jpg

This is a photo of a rupestris used as a street tree in Taroom, Central Queensland.

Cultivated trees tend to be shorter and fatter in cultivation.

I've seen many of the Brcahychiton rupestrises at the zoo, park(big, fat one at WAP), colleges and they do not look anything like this one.  The big differences is the branches, leaves, and of course the trunk.

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Fouquieria Proficient

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The original pic is a Delonix, I believe.  It's interesting that they have it in a pot.  I wonder if they bring it in, in the winter.

Anyway, some thick-trunked Delonix species from Madagascar are referred to as Delonix adansonioides (Adansonia-like)--but that term has no taxonomic standing.  Usually it refers to the more common bottle-trunked Delonix such as D. floribunda, D. decaryi, or D. boiviniana.  I'm guessing the San Diego Zoo tree is D. floribunda.

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Zac in NC Veteran

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Ron- I thought that D adansonioides was valid? They were selling it at the Cacti and Succulent Society sale at the Huntington back in Early July. I know Richard was tempted to buy one. Also, I know we saw one planted at The Living Desert in Palm Desert, California. Here is one in bloom at the Huntington in July.

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Nope Zac--ain't valid according to DuPuy and he's the guru on the genus.  The pic of that one at the Huntington is probably Delonix decaryi.  Delonix decaryi and D. floribunda are probably the two most commonly cultivated here in SoCal and the two trees look similar except when they are in flower.  D. decaryi has nice white blooms that yellow as they age.  D. floribunda has umbels of smaller light yellow blooms.

One of the guys from Yahoo groups just posted some really great pics of his first-time blooming Delonix floribunda.

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