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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Anthony Darby on March 20, 2011, 08:39:27 AM

Title: Unusual tree
Post by: Anthony Darby on March 20, 2011, 08:39:27 AM

Spotted this tree near Avondale, on my way to Oratia Native Plant Nursery. What is it?

Title: Re: Unusual tree
Post by: ashley on March 20, 2011, 08:48:55 AM

Anthony, it looks like the South American 'Silk floss tree' Ceiba speciosa which should start flowering in NZ about now. 

Title: Re: Unusual tree
Post by: Anthony Darby on March 20, 2011, 10:14:15 AM

Thanks Ashley. It took me by surprise, so I have to stop the car in a bus stop (not the one under the tree but across the road) to photograph it.

Title: Re: Unusual tree
Post by: Paddy Tobin on March 20, 2011, 01:21:12 PM

That's certainly it, Ashley. I had posted a  photograph for identification late last year after a visit to Madeira. It is truly an impressive sight, stunningly colourful and beautiful.

A nice one to see, Anthony.

Paddy