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#71383 9-Nov-2010 21:47

so i bought a tree, planted it, an completely forgot what sort of tree it is.... anyone here able to identify it, or do i have to go join a gardening forum?

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#402391 9-Nov-2010 22:28

I'm visiting my mum and she thinks it looks like a spruce?

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#402408 9-Nov-2010 22:54

Kinda looks a bit like a NZ Kauri (Agathis australis) to me. Close up of the leaves would make it easier I think... :)

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#402983 10-Nov-2010 17:36

i dont believe it was a spruce and its definately not an NZ kauri. for some reason i though it was an oriental pine variety, but perhaps the pine was the tree i was looking at before choosing this specific one....

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#403095 10-Nov-2010 20:48

here is the close up shot of the leaves:

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#403270 11-Nov-2010 09:56

I'd call it Samuel or Harold.

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#403291 11-Nov-2010 10:16

Looks like a Kauri maybe one from the pacific islands!

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#403506 11-Nov-2010 17:00

obviously we dont have any decent tree geeks here.... the tree place (literally, as that is their actual name) got back to me after i sent photo and identified it as "Podocarpus Elatus" aka "Plum Pine".

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#403508 11-Nov-2010 17:02

Regs: obviously we dont have any decent tree geeks here.... the tree place (literally, as that is their actual name) got back to me after i sent photo and identified it as "Podocarpus Elatus" aka "Plum Pine".

That's exactly what I was going to say next.... ;)

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#403511 11-Nov-2010 17:06

Regs: obviously we dont have any decent tree geeks here.... the tree place (literally, as that is their actual name) got back to me after i sent photo and identified it as "Podocarpus Elatus" aka "Plum Pine".

What do you expect - this is a geek forum.

The only trees we are likely to know about are TreeViews. Not to mention, leaves grow on XML around here!!!

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#403520 11-Nov-2010 17:43

Well i'm a little disappointed I thought there would be a lot more sarcasm here and I only looked in case the tree was needing a name not a species / variation waaa.

I woulda suggested Steve or Bob or something like that. Either that or give it a girls name but i just think that would be sappy.

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#403522 11-Nov-2010 17:50

I expected someone to suggest it was the Larch.

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#403525 11-Nov-2010 18:00

jtbthatsme: I woulda suggested Steve or Bob or something like that. Either that or give it a girls name but i just think that would be sappy.

You mean something like "Tree of Geeks"?

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#403528 11-Nov-2010 18:07

Not to sound stupid (although a lot of people would say this is a skill for me) but i'm not sure what you mean by Tree of Geeks maybe i'm just not geeky enough sigh........hehe.

It was my attempt at a tree pun. Maybe i should leaf that to more skilled people.

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#403534 11-Nov-2010 18:21

jtbthatsme:It was my attempt at a tree pun. Maybe i should leaf that to more skilled people.

Don't tie yourself up in knots over it, there is no harm in branching out into the world of puns...

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#403539 11-Nov-2010 18:42

Mike the problem with that is that as this was about the type of tree not some funny thing it would appear that we are just barking up the wrong path and have been rooted out in this line of thinking.

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