Game time

It's always dangerous when I stay home from work.

What are these?

Yeah, yeah, besides quarters.

Cercis canadensis is providing her head for scale.

And these are not elaborate cat entertainment devices, or kitty treats.

Hummmmmmm. Hard to tell. Is it a Michelia figo bloom? How about a Forsythia? Shoot what blooming in Kentucky now????? If I win do I get to keep the quarters. LOL

Can I have a hint??????

Looks like Felicida gatophthora to me

Resin

That Pink magnolia I can't think of the name of?

Resin:

So close! Only barely one kingdom off...

Star:

No; no; not much; and no. Oh, well, OK. The illustrated plant parts are not technically "a bloom" but what is left at the end of the reproductive cycle. These are not fresh by any means, but at least 10 years old. Testimony to their use as dried arrangement items. I resurrected these when browsing through the old pine cone collection.

Tropic:

No, not magnolia. Not in Magnoliaceae either.

If pressed, I'll try to take some more pictures if I can keep the "helpers" at bay.

I don't even want to think about the poor Magnolias here. That cold snap we got went and froze and killed all the blooms on the Magnolia x soulangiana that were just startign to open. I walke d past tree after tre e and abotu cried looking at hundreds of blooms half open and frozen dead just hanging there.

Wel, if resin close, I doubt I wil be able to guess. I don't know all that many tree s yet, but slowly learning. never even heard of the genus Resin mentioned.

LOL cute helpers. Raking my brain for what I use in flower arrangements that might look like that. Darn, drawing a blank. Ahhhhhhh. : )

gatophagus would work, too, I guess.
I thought they looked like Rhododendron pods until I went outside and looked at some.

Syringa ....... possibly Syringa japonica seed pods which have open.

LOL Resin!!!!!!!! : )

Does it even grow in my area???? LOL be my luck it don't even grow down here this far.

You are looking at a woody capsule about an inch long and wide from which the winged seeds of this species fall. Looks like a little wood rose. Some say it's not enough reason to grow the tree.

If you saw it, you might mistake this tree for an Ailanthus, except for the long peeling strips of bark.

Asian cultures have used young shoots as a vegetable, and the leaves have an oniony smell.

It'll go zones 5-7. Not Rhododendron, Syringa, or Felicida (Res.) C.Pa.

an Acer of some kind? (and I love your kitty)

I'll try Tetradium (syn. Euodia)

Resin

No, not an Acer.

No, not Tetradium; it has small hard black pellet-like seeds.

Maybe I should go back to making jumbles.

Oh it's right on the tip on my tounge!

Phellodendron?

Toona sinensis

Resin

Not Phellodendron; it has small black fleshy fruit.

I must say, you are all pulling out the obscure opposite-branched offerings.

This plant is alternate and pinnately compound. The stems and leaf scars would remind of plants like Ailanthus, Juglans, and Carya.

I learned about this tree from a single plant on the University of KY campus in Lexington, what they used to call the old "Landscape Arboretum" near the agricultural engineering building. When I went back to school the second time, I used to walk by this plant daily going to and from classes on central campus. It wasn't much of a specimen, but it was giving it "the old college try" amongst showier Hamamelis, Viburnum, and various conifers. The plant parts illustrated were the last left that I picked up in the fall, probably from around 1996.

The tree (and most of the old collection there) is now gone, paved over for the new Plant Sciences Building.

And Resin nails it.

The former (as I learned it) Cedrela sinensis, the Chinese Toon...how could anyone ever forget that name, once learned?

I think folks need to rush right out and get two or three. If dybbuk is lurking, there's a variegated one called Toona sinensis 'Flamingo'.

Wasn't the chinese toon in the Roger Rabbit movie?

OK, what's this, then?

Resin

Found this site, a key to commonly cultivated southeast Asian trees in the last tree search, pretty good

http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/ac775e/AC775E02.htm

Thanks, claypot. I rummaged around and found this on the same site.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/ac775e/AC775E01.htm

This is a great link for seeing what some of the terms mean that get tossed around on this forum.

AND, I really like this admonition:

Resin...I know this is totally wrong but it looks like a lime tree.

Yep, you knew it, totally wrong :-))

The fruit are immature but full size, about 3cm long; for a clue, at maturity they will be harvested to be cracked and pressed for oil.

Resin

Is that an olive (Olea) of some kind?

Will I need to crack a nice Chianti Classico as a landscape partner?

Nope, sorry, and the Chianti would not be welcomed by the oil pressers . . .

Resin

A Calophyllum?