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Can anyone identify my white nuts

_Keith

By _Keith
in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms

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_Keith Grand Master

_Keith

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Actually they are white nuts inside of white fruit. Could even be a palm for all I know, I could not identify the tree from which they dropped

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Alicehunter2000 Grand Master

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If you can't ID your own white nuts.....no way I would be able to....sorry

David Simms zone 9a on Highway 30a

200 steps from the Gulf in NW Florida

30 ft. elevation and sandy soil

_Keith Grand Master

_Keith

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I don't have a clue. Lychee?

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Jerry@TreeZoo Grand Master

Jerry@TreeZoo

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Might be Orange Geiger, Cordia sebestena.

So many species,

so little time.

Coconut Creek, Florida

Zone 10b (Zone 11 except for once evey 10 or 20 years)

Last Freeze: 2011,50 Miles North of Fairchilds

_Keith Grand Master

_Keith

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Might be Orange Geiger, Cordia sebestena.

That looks about right. Now that I know what the tree looks like, I can walk back tomorrow to verify. Thx.

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trioderob Grand Master

trioderob

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must be Keithonos Gonadstus

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Josh-O Grand Master

Josh-O

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If you can't ID your own white nuts.....no way I would be able to....sorry

lol......

Carlsbad, California Zone 10 B on the hill (402 ft. elevation)

Sunset zone 24

Moose Grand Master

Moose

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If you can't ID your own white nuts.....no way I would be able to....sorry

Was afraid to open this thread, yet here I am ... :bemused:

Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B

_Keith Grand Master

_Keith

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After all of this, I get my big white nuts Identified, I take a picture of my big white nuts hanging low, and then somewhere between here and there, I lost my big white nuts. With no big white nuts, I am no longer sure I can grow some new ones.

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Alicehunter2000 Grand Master

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Just look at it this way.....you may have lost your white nuts but you have gained a great singing voice.

David Simms zone 9a on Highway 30a

200 steps from the Gulf in NW Florida

30 ft. elevation and sandy soil

Moose Grand Master

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After all of this, I get my big white nuts Identified, I take a picture of my big white nuts hanging low, and then somewhere between here and there, I lost my big white nuts. With no big white nuts, I am no longer sure I can grow some new ones.

Its a native that defoliates readily during our cold snaps. I have my doubts if it would have survived a 9a existence.

Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B

_Keith Grand Master

_Keith

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After all of this, I get my big white nuts Identified, I take a picture of my big white nuts hanging low, and then somewhere between here and there, I lost my big white nuts. With no big white nuts, I am no longer sure I can grow some new ones.

Its a native that defoliates readily during our cold snaps. I have my doubts if it would have survived a 9a existence.

Oh, I know. Houseplant for a year or two at best, summers outside, winters inside. Just fun to germinate and grow for a while.

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Keith, I take it you are traveling at the moment...as you won't be finding any of these white nuts on a growing tree in Louisiana. It is notoriously tender. I tried a fairly large one in Natchez one year--knowing it was a hopeless cause, but just to enjoy it one season and to test it for myself--and an average 9a winter killed it dead, there was no attempt at regrowing from roots or mulched region of the trunk. The good news is that the white-flowered Geiger, Cordia boisseri, is a native of Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley and has been grown successfully I think as far north as San Antonio, perhaps even Austin for years at a stretch. It defoliates in winter in frosty conditions but is quite tough and really a beautiful thing, and the top is relatively hardy so you don't have to start from the roots every year. There are nice ones in Key West growing, a particularly nice one at the cemetery if you ever find your way down there. You may be able to find this from a number of mail-order sources such as Gardino Nursery or Top Tropicals in Florida, or YuccaDo in Texas.

Michael Norell

Rancho Mirage, California | 33°44' N 116°25' W | 287 ft | z10a | avg Jan 43/70F | Jul 78/108F avg | Weather Station KCARANCH310

previously Big Pine Key, Florida | 24°40' N 81°21' W | 4.5 ft. | z12a | Calcareous substrate | avg annual min. approx 52F | avg Jan 65/75F | Jul 83/90 | extreme min approx 41F

previously Natchez, Mississippi | 31°33' N 91°24' W | 220 ft.| z9a | Downtown/river-adjacent | Loess substrate | avg annual min. 23F | Jan 43/61F | Jul 73/93F | extreme min 2.5F (1899); previously Los Angeles, California (multiple locations)

_Keith Grand Master

_Keith

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Keith, I take it you are traveling at the moment...as you won't be finding any of these white nuts on a growing tree in Louisiana. It is notoriously tender. I tried a fairly large one in Natchez one year--knowing it was a hopeless cause, but just to enjoy it one season and to test it for myself--and an average 9a winter killed it dead, there was no attempt at regrowing from roots or mulched region of the trunk. The good news is that the white-flowered Geiger, Cordia boisseri, is a native of Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley and has been grown successfully I think as far north as San Antonio, perhaps even Austin for years at a stretch. It defoliates in winter in frosty conditions but is quite tough and really a beautiful thing, and the top is relatively hardy so you don't have to start from the roots every year. There are nice ones in Key West growing, a particularly nice one at the cemetery if you ever find your way down there. You may be able to find this from a number of mail-order sources such as Gardino Nursery or Top Tropicals in Florida, or YuccaDo in Texas.

Just got back from Sunset Key, very short boat ride from Key West. 5 days in heaven. I know it is hopeless, just never met a seed I didn't want to plant, even if for a very short life.

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mnorell Veteran

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Well there's no reason you can't plant one in your new ***greenhouse*** which is sure to be filled with lots of green critters before long. Hope you caught the cannonball tree on William Street and the many Breadfruit trees around, Tim O'Donnell's recent plantings at the Geiger/Audubon house, etc. There are lots of botanical goodies to see down here and very difficult indeed to catch them all in a short visit.

Michael Norell

Rancho Mirage, California | 33°44' N 116°25' W | 287 ft | z10a | avg Jan 43/70F | Jul 78/108F avg | Weather Station KCARANCH310

previously Big Pine Key, Florida | 24°40' N 81°21' W | 4.5 ft. | z12a | Calcareous substrate | avg annual min. approx 52F | avg Jan 65/75F | Jul 83/90 | extreme min approx 41F

previously Natchez, Mississippi | 31°33' N 91°24' W | 220 ft.| z9a | Downtown/river-adjacent | Loess substrate | avg annual min. 23F | Jan 43/61F | Jul 73/93F | extreme min 2.5F (1899); previously Los Angeles, California (multiple locations)

Silas_Sancona Grand Master

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Agree with mnorell, give it a try, just keep it close to the Greenhouse.

A testament to this species cold sensitivity: A 3 gal. specimen id had when I lived north of the Skyway in Largo didn't survive its first winter back in San Jose. And id brought it inside during the one cold snap we had that year. Tex. olive shrugs off brief snowfall, only dropping some leaves, and laugh off 100+F heat. My largest Orange Geiger id started from seed may now be a year away from flowering so at some point a cross will be attempted, just for fun.

-Nathan

SubTropicRay Grand Master

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It's a relatively slow growing tree Keith so you should be able to enjoy it for some time in a container.

No one cares about your current yard temperature 🙃

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