I live in Southern California and 8 years ago I brought back a seed
from a tree picked up in my native France.
Can you help me identify it? Check out pics there...

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jbondarts/album?.dir=/fdd7& ;.src=ph&.tok=phLsuDFBW.0S.3uO

JB wrote:
> I live in Southern California and 8 years ago I brought back a seed
> from a tree picked up in my native France.
> Can you help me identify it? Check out pics there...
> http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jbondarts/album?.dir=/fdd7& ;.src=ph&.tok=phLsuDFBW.0S.3uO

Phew! That's a bit difficult - I'm native from France and it could be
so many trees! I first thought of a walnut. It's the right size for an
8 years old tree. Where about did you pick the seed from? A woodland? A
field? Where about in France? Ailianthus looks like this too ....

"JB" <jbondarts [at] gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1150829725.387469.249090 [at] b68g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I live in Southern California and 8 years ago I brought back a seed
> from a tree picked up in my native France.
> Can you help me identify it? Check out pics there...
>
> http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jbondarts/album?.dir=/fdd7& ;.src=ph&.tok=phLsuDFBW.0S.3uO
>

Looks not dissimilar to Caragana perhaps?

La Puce wrote:
> JB wrote:
> > I live in Southern California and 8 years ago I brought back a seed
> > from a tree picked up in my native France.
> > Can you help me identify it? Check out pics there...
> > http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jbondarts/album?.dir=/fdd7& ;.src=ph&.tok=phLsuDFBW.0S.3uO
>
> Phew! That's a bit difficult - I'm native from France and it could be
> so many trees! I first thought of a walnut. It's the right size for an
> 8 years old tree. Where about did you pick the seed from? A woodland? A
> field? Where about in France? Ailianthus looks like this too ....

I picked it up I think from a forest just outside of Paris (west).
Ailianthus leaf edges look smoother than on this mystery tree though

Rupert (W.Yorkshire) wrote:
> Looks not dissimilar to Caragana perhaps?

Caragana have round leaves not tipped like the OP's picture.

http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/photos/carar02.jpg

Rupert (W.Yorkshire) wrote:
> "JB" <jbondarts [at] gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1150829725.387469.249090 [at] b68g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >I live in Southern California and 8 years ago I brought back a seed
> > from a tree picked up in my native France.
> > Can you help me identify it? Check out pics there...
> >
> > http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jbondarts/album?.dir=/fdd7& ;.src=ph&.tok=phLsuDFBW.0S.3uO
> >
>
> Looks not dissimilar to Caragana perhaps?
Caragan leaves look much rounder...

JB wrote:
> I picked it up I think from a forest just outside of Paris (west).

Hmmmm... that doesn't help much. I lived in Fontainebleau for a while,
but then that doesn't help much either :o))

> Ailianthus leaf edges look smoother than on this mystery tree though

Yes. A walnut? Perhaps we ought to wait for flowers. A supposed you
haven't had any yet?

La Puce wrote:
> JB wrote:
> > I picked it up I think from a forest just outside of Paris (west).
>
> Hmmmm... that doesn't help much. I lived in Fontainebleau for a while,
> but then that doesn't help much either :o))
>
> > Ailianthus leaf edges look smoother than on this mystery tree though
>
> Yes. A walnut? Perhaps we ought to wait for flowers. A supposed you
> haven't had any yet?
I've never had any flowers. My guess is it doesn't like southern
california weather. I also have a buck-eye (marronier) and it is
surving too despite the heat.

On 20/6/06 21:55, in article
1150836956.276528.144290 [at] c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com, "JB"
<jbondarts [at] gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Rupert (W.Yorkshire) wrote:
>> "JB" <jbondarts [at] gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1150829725.387469.249090 [at] b68g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>> I live in Southern California and 8 years ago I brought back a seed
>>> from a tree picked up in my native France.
>>> Can you help me identify it? Check out pics there...
>>>
>>> http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jbondarts/album?.dir=/fdd7& ;.src=ph&.tok=phLsuD
>>> FBW.0S.3uO
>>>
>>
>> Looks not dissimilar to Caragana perhaps?
> Caragan leaves look much rounder...
>
It makes me think of one of the climbers like Pyrostegia or something of
that sort.

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(email address on website)

Sacha wrote:
> It makes me think of one of the climbers like Pyrostegia or something of
> that sort.

That's so funny - I was thinking of the chocolate flower climber -
can't remember the name now. Here the Pyrostegia I got - I thought it
was so funny. I'm collecting funnies of plants. Beats collecting stamps
I s'pose :o)

http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Bignoniaceae/Pyrosteg ia_venusta2.jpg

On 21/6/06 16:12, in article
1150902761.867059.325390 [at] r2g2000cwb.googlegroups.com, "La Puce"
<helene [at] rudlin.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Sacha wrote:
>> It makes me think of one of the climbers like Pyrostegia or something of
>> that sort.
>
> That's so funny - I was thinking of the chocolate flower climber -

I don't know which you're thinking of but not Akebia quinata, surely?
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(email address on website)

Sacha wrote:
> I don't know which you're thinking of but not Akebia quinata, surely?

Yes, that's the one and I know - I've got one in my wheelbarrow rescued
from my verhanda a couple of years ago. Not the same leaves at all
indeed - ignore my madness, my happiness today has gone to my head. Our
Akebia is waiting to be rehomed on a friend's balcony who is taking far
too long to organise the move. Another year and I'll have it dangling
into the street!!