Poohkie13
Newly Registered
Posts: 5
Joined: Sun Nov 01, 2009 7:11 pm
Location: Oklahoma

Please help Identify this tree

because I really want one in my yard! Thanks in advance!!!

[img]https://i723.photobucket.com/albums/ww237/Ladyyemaya13/tree/Coba104.jpg[/img]

If I have not inserted the photo correctly, someone please give me some tips!

--------------

can also be viewed at
<center>
<a href="https://s723.photobucket.com/albums/ww237/Ladyyemaya13/tree/?action=view&current=Coba104.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://i723.photobucket.com/albums/ww237/Ladyyemaya13/tree/th_Coba104.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" ></a>
</center>

User avatar
bewildered_nmsu
Senior Member
Posts: 118
Joined: Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:39 am
Location: Las Cruces, NM

I think it's a Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla).

Poohkie13
Newly Registered
Posts: 5
Joined: Sun Nov 01, 2009 7:11 pm
Location: Oklahoma

I think it is very similar to the Norfolk Island Pine...but the pics of them that I found don't have needles on their branches that go all the way to the main trunk of the tree.

The story behind this tree (in my pic) is that I saw it in Mexico outside of a restaurant somewhere between the Coba Myan site and the Chichen Itza Mayan site.

I asked our guide to ask the restaurant owner what type of tree it was and he did. The translation from Spanish back to English was that "they didn't know, they had been on vacation on the continent and brought it back and it had grown that tall in a little over five years).

Problem is...I assumed the continent was the US --- which it may have been...but it also could have been South America or even Europe.

So, I don't know the *real* place of origin of this tree which has made identification very difficult!

Poohkie13
Newly Registered
Posts: 5
Joined: Sun Nov 01, 2009 7:11 pm
Location: Oklahoma

"continent" may have also meant "mainland" Mexico as we were in the Yucatan peninsula...and our guide spoke broken English at best.

I wish I had asked for clarification!

User avatar
applestar
Mod
Posts: 30514
Joined: Thu May 01, 2008 7:21 pm
Location: Zone 6, NJ (3/M)4/E ~ 10/M(11/B)

Wow, that IS a beautiful tree! But, you know, after your explanation, I'm not sure that you could grow this tree in your Oklahoma garden. Maybe it would be possible to keep it smaller in a container and bring it indoors during the winter. I hope someone can ID it.

JONA878
Greener Thumb
Posts: 1014
Joined: Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:14 am
Location: SUSSEX

I can't find anything in my ref. other than the Norfolk.
If it is, then it is not a hardy plant at all and requires temps above 40F to grow well.
If it is hit by frost it apparently can re-shoot from the base.
Florida is about as far north as it will tolerate.

Beautiful tree.

Jona

User avatar
bewildered_nmsu
Senior Member
Posts: 118
Joined: Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:39 am
Location: Las Cruces, NM

I've seen them as far north as Seattle. It doesn't get very cold there but definitely as cold as maybe 25 F. I guess they could have been a hardy variety of Norfolk Island Pine.



Return to “Trees, Shrubs, and Hedges”