Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Mar 25, 2009 6:41 pm Re: Anyone recognise this tree?? 2Mar 25, 2009 8:44 pm I'm thinking it's a Melaluca Nessnaphila (sp). These are pretty common in Perth. does it have purple flowers ? It's defiantly a Melaluca of some sort. If it is a Nessnaphila, no they don't grow very big, they can also be pruned to be kept under control. Fu ??? Re: Anyone recognise this tree?? 3Mar 25, 2009 9:22 pm I have the brains trust verifying it, but I think it is as above Re: Anyone recognise this tree?? 5Mar 26, 2009 1:15 am zozzles23 It doesn't have any flowers as yet, it's pretty young. It has that real paper like feel bark Melaluca's are paperbarks !! lol The name Melaluca means black and white, which is meant to represent the colour of the bark ...black bark/white bark. They are a lovely street tree, they are actually a very small tree, classified as a large shrub in horti terms. They can be grown in tree form by cutting off the lower branches. They are very wind resistant, don't drop much foliage, pretty slow growing, lush looking in a native plant way. If it is a nesnophila the flowers are beautiful, they look like light purple pom poms and grow near the end of the foliage, rather than scattered through out the whole greenery. It's defiantly a keeper. Nice plant ! Re: Anyone recognise this tree?? 6Mar 26, 2009 4:28 pm It looks more like Melaleuca quinquenervia or broad leaf paper-bark. It is a slender tree and can grow tp 10m in their native, swampy conditions. Flowers are usually cream, there is a lot of them around Joondalup Lake and in Yanchep around the lake (Grey, D. 1989 The Australian Gardener's Wildflower Catalogue[i]) [/i]. Melaleuca nesophila is more like a spreading bush, branches are thiner than these on the pic. After a few years can be trained into a small tree as mentioned above. Maggie Re: Anyone recognise this tree?? 7Mar 26, 2009 10:11 pm maggie It looks more like Melaleuca quinquenervia or broad leaf paper-bark. It is a slender tree and can grow tp 10m in their native, swampy conditions. Flowers are usually cream, there is a lot of them around Joondalup Lake and in Yanchep around the lake (Grey, D. 1989 The Australian Gardener's Wildflower Catalogue[i]) [/i]. Melaleuca nesophila is more like a spreading bush, branches are thiner than these on the pic. After a few years can be trained into a small tree as mentioned above. Maggie Your onto it like the preverbial flys on $%^# (dog droppings ) I got an email back from good friend Pen who is a tree genius! her answer was much the same Maggie Quote: More like M. quinquinervia maybe… flowers? Colour? Nesophila smaller foliage, shrubby and cheers for this one Mike Quote: Could be a Nesophilia,the leaves are the right shape,if they are a bit like leather and the flowers are purple with a yellowy gold edges you have cracked it!!! Re: Anyone recognise this tree?? 9Mar 27, 2009 7:15 pm Sorry Zozzles, I do not think your tree will survive this. Natives do not like to be moved in particular bigger plants. You can move plants that send aerial roots easily but not natives. It is easier to plant a new plant in a different position that replant the existing one. Maggie Re: Anyone recognise this tree?? 10Mar 27, 2009 9:14 pm Yeah, I have seen quite a few native trees moved before Maggie. I do agree with you on that I don't like the survival chances. Nothing to lose though. The council sure won't do any better or worse job of moving it. I recently worked with a chap who had a landscape plan for a small estate of units. The particular council had specified that certain Nuytsias (The amazing WA Christams tree) were to be moved from one location and replanted. Now the council horts should have been aware that these trees are parasitic and can not be moved to easily if it all. Not to mention the use of these trees in close or even semi close proximity to water pipes, phone lines, and gas pipes is a hazard. The Nuytsia roots can cut through them, mistaking them for other tree roots. To improve the chances of success on this one, seasol, seasol and seasol. Then trim back the foliage by about a third. Wait for some recovery, then dig it up. You will need a strong and very sharp spade (a grinder to sharpen edge will be fine or file) a tomahawk for cutting roots. Loppers will be handy to for cutting roots. Then some soil improver mixed into the area to be replanted and seasol. Before you do lift it out of the hole mark the side say facing the road or north. When you plonk it back in the hole have it facing the same aspect. Then seasol once a week and lots of water everyday for a week or two. Oh and you will need a couple of long star pickets and rubber tree tie to support it once moved. That is as good as you can do really. Re: Anyone recognise this tree?? 11Mar 28, 2009 4:03 am i think it would be much easier just cutting it down and planting a new one,some of the melaleucas grow pretty quckly and it wouldnt take any time at all for a newly planted one to get back to that size, maybe thats an alternative you could discuss with the council? it would have to be cheaper than paying them to move it and would have an almost guaranteed chance of survival as opposed to this tree not surviving the transplant. i dont know which one it is but i dont think it's nesophila, i have one of those in my garden and the leaves and bark dont look right to me at all. Re: Anyone recognise this tree?? 12Mar 28, 2009 10:07 pm You are right too picean I got this message from a mate who is a supervisor for a landscape mob and worked for a very big nursery. Quote: hey mate its a Melaleuca quinquenervia, quite common around here has the same leaves and bark Re: Anyone recognise this tree?? 14Mar 30, 2009 8:09 pm I'll try find you a bigger one if you want. At that size though I think your going to move it easy as It'll probably just about lift out of the sand hasn't been there too long. It would have been planted as a 30ltr or 45ltr. Any replacement will be slightly smaller and under $100 easy. Re: Anyone recognise this tree?? 16Apr 01, 2009 8:17 pm I don't think it's too close to the drive though. Hi , I'm currently going through this now within the Whitehorse council which has a similar set of restrictions. We're having to make compromises with our floor plan due… 3 30575 Hello. 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