Nevertheless i've started a forest, using young trees wich are exactly springing up in my back yard from the large tree growing they're.
I'll like to identify it. It looks a bit like a Jacaranda in the trunk & branches and leaves, but the small flowers are bright yellow. It drops it's leavces and flowers at least once a year (not good for the pool :-)) and has small seedpods about an inch or so long, shaped like a thin flat oval wing with a tastefully seed sharply bulging in one corner.
From what I know of bonsai (beginner) & wattle trees, I'd agree, but than I have noted the use of Jade plants as bonsia, and I wouldn't have steadily guessed they'd be any use either.
Sure, but it would be easier if you told us what part of the world you are from (not to mention a name we can pin on). I assume a warm climate because of the kind of tree you describe and the reference to a pool. But I really don't like to be that much of a detective. ;-)
It is an Acacia species. If you live in the SE USA it is A.
farnsiana, A. pinetyorum, (S.W. Fla. only), or A. smallii (N.W.
Meanwhile fla and adjacent states). There are a few other, rare and endangered, species that grow in limited area in the Florida
Keys. There's another Acacia -- angustissima, var. hirta that grows in dry lands of the lower Midwestern USA, south into Texas.
It does NOT have thorns (one of the few).
It could be an Albezia -- A. lebbeck (Cent. and S. Therefore fla).
There are other species of these two general in Texas, N.M.,
Ariz. and Southern California.
Most are weedy (and "springing up in your back yard" sounds right). Almost all have thorns, many of them wickedly dagnerous.
None of these -- in MY opinion -- make exemplary bonsai.
Found a GREAT website i've been using to determine species of potential yamadori around my area. I'm no arborist, and sometimes differentiating between trees, especially the pines up here in the northeast, gets a little difficult. This website put out by the University of Florida is awesome. You enter the characteristics of the tree into the program and it gives you either the species, or potentials. Just go to the 'Tree Identification' link, and good luck. Program kicks booty.
Don't get too specific at first and check out the matches. You can click on the species to view another page with pictures and info about the possible tree. If there are too many, it's very easy to go back and 'refine search'.
http://orb.at.ufl.edu/TREES/index.html
:silly:<br><br>Post edited by: Watdogg, at: 2009/10/16 01:12
It sounds a whole lot like a wattle to me. Are the little yellow flowers kinda like pompomns, little fluff balls?
Crazy wrote:
If you could post a picture, I would be much easier to determine what type of tree you have.Nevertheless i've started a forest, using young trees wich are exactly springing up in my back yard from the large tree growing they're.
I'll like to identify it. It looks a bit like a Jacaranda in the trunk & branches and leaves, but the small flowers are bright yellow. It drops it's leavces and flowers at least once a year (not good for the pool :-)) and has small seedpods about an inch or so long, shaped like a thin flat oval wing with a tastefully seed sharply bulging in one corner.
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