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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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 Posted - 09/02/2008 : 17:06:46
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This is another tree growing wild in the gully. It has tiny white/cream flowers and weird spiky (soft spikes) fruit. The backs of teh leaves are nearly white.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld
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otamot
head gardener
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Posted - 09/02/2008 : 19:47:45
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| I have no idea but the flowers remind me of witchhazel? could it be witchhazel? |
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otamot
head gardener
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 10/02/2008 : 04:17:52
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Thanks for trying anyway, Ota 
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 10/02/2008 : 07:07:37
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No luck here either Gail I got on to the Brisbane Rain-forest Plants site last night and looked for over one hour, hundreds on there got down to close to the end of the E's then fell asleep, woke up just after 2am, gee I have not done that for a while I must have been tired been doing a lot of digging lately..
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 10/02/2008 : 18:37:17
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Thanks for trying too Mary-Anne. I sat for an hour going through a natives book last night that I have - no pics, just descriptions so had to go through each one - with no luck.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 10/02/2008 : 18:56:27
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Actually, I think I've found out what it is (another forum) - Commersonia bartramia or Brown Kurrajong
http://www.anbg.gov.au/photo/apii/id/dig/1671
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
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Posted - 11/02/2008 : 06:25:30
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Gosh - what a variety of plants you have in that gully!
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 11/02/2008 : 11:26:31
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There is a variety Pamela, the gully hasn't been cleared for a very long time, if ever, so is still very similar to what it would have been like before the rest of the land was cleared around settlement. Mainly subtropical rainforest plants but also many are weeds which have obviously sprung up over the years - some nice thorny vines and other plants too  We would live to get into it and clean up the weeds and plant more native rainforest type plants but all takes time and money (fencing, etc).
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
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