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Sat, May 21, 11 at 21:32
Hi everyone, I've been in S.America. While wandering along I heard a commotion overhead. It turned out to be green parrots fighting over this seed. What tree does it come from? Does it grow where you live? Have never seen it in my state. Do you know of any examples on the East Coast of USA? |
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| Sam, did you look up?........ and see what conifer it was? |
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- Posted by salicaceae z8b FL (My Page) on Sun, May 22, 11 at 7:17
| Nice Araucaria seeds. The look to be A. angustifolia - if not, then A. araucana. You couldn't have missed the parent tree. |
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 Here is a vendor at the "Feria Libre" or Farmer's Market in Temuco, Chile. She is selling the same seed. I asked her about it, she said that people buy it from her only to eat. I think that salicaceae is on the right track. |
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| Seeds in the first photo are Araucaria araucana. A. angustifolia has a much shorter spine on the end. Resin |
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 My compliments to resin for properly IDing the tree by seed alone. Pictured here is A. araucana in Lanin Nat'l Park in Argentine Patagonia. Porous, volcanic soils suit it well along with its companion Antarctic Beech. Learning about Monkey Puzzle tree has been fascinating. The species has seen dinosaurs and woolly mammoth come and go. The species is protected under the CITES agreement. My only question, why do I have to drive clear to Virginia Zoological Park in Norfolk to see a significant specimen? |
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 I took this pic yesterday of a male MP tree at the Zoological Park in Norfolk, VA. The tree grows happily there and receives no special attention. Why do we see so few MP trees in eastern US? |
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- Posted by salicaceae z8b FL (My Page) on Fri, Mar 2, 12 at 9:12
| Root rot - they are notoriously susceptible to Phytopthora in warm, wet areas. It would also be killed by cold in areas below zone 8 in the east that occasionally see below zone cold. |
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Another East Coast Araucaria araucana, this one just behind the castle at the Smithsonian. I don't think this tree has been there very long. I will be interesting to see if it can handle the heat, humidity and pollution of Washington DC.  |
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- Posted by bob_cville (My Page) on Thu, Nov 29, 12 at 15:21
| I believe this is one too. Its in the DC area right across the street from the Pemberton Oaks gardens.
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| Dumbarton, not Pemberton. Is that picture recent? I wasn't sure if that tree was still there. If it can last much longer, it will get past the seeming danger stage when they can still die. There was a tree about this size on West Ox Rd. in the western suburbs of DC that died in the 1990s. Almost certainly purchased from "Betty's Azalea Ranch" which sold them in the early 1980s for the then very princely sum of $400. |
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| die easily, that is! |
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bob_cville, thanks for your post. That's the tree I saw just after I went to the Nat'l Cathedral, kinda hard to miss it.  |
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| I'm glad the tree is still doing well. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Fri, Nov 30, 12 at 7:32
| that smithsonian pic cracks me up ... i am presuming that is a professional installation.. and apparently that professional.. really has no clue about staking a tree .. lol ... any wind that would affect it.. would probably snap the top off.. long before it tipped over.. but then.. that kind of wind.. would be the type.. wherein i suggest.. we are going to have a lot of other problems regardless of that tree.. if those kind of winds hit the area .... thx for the pix... and the mystery ... ken |
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- Posted by canadianplant (My Page) on Fri, Nov 30, 12 at 8:04
| There is a Monkey Puzzle or 2, of good size on the southern tip of nova scotia. |
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| ditto canadianplant, very respectable specimen on coastal Nova Scotia, see link. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Nova Scotia MPT
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- Posted by gardenapprentice none (My Page) on Tue, Dec 4, 12 at 21:12
| The first picture the seed on the far left at the top is either a black walnut, ash, or "tree of heaven" |
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- Posted by gardenapprentice none (My Page) on Tue, Dec 4, 12 at 21:13
| The first picture the seed on the far left at the top is either a black walnut, ash, or "tree of heaven" |
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