Palms: What else grows IN them? Oak?

[M.D. Vaden]

To me - the plant looks like an oak growing up in a palm tree - this was Oceanside, California: day before yesterday.

3 trees like this in within 100'

Is that an oak - sure looks like it.

What other plants grow up in palm trees, and how are they getting moisture?

How big can plants get, that grow in tops of palm trees?

 

[jomoco]

It's very common to see this in date palms here, it can be any number of species of plants or trees growing there after birds deposit the seeds on the tree's bowl and they take root and grow there.

jomoco

 

[Canyonbc]

So they just grow out and start living with the palm..

i have seen a that here and there in San Diego...on different date palms, always wondered.

 

[M.D. Vaden]

It's very common to see this in date palms here, it can be any number of species of plants or trees growing there after birds deposit the seeds on the tree's bowl and they take root and grow there.

jomoco

I'm glad you posted.

By the way, I really loved the trees down there. There's a lot of nicely pruned trees all over the place. I stayed in the Ramada, and walked around town on foot, and drove too. That's one of the palms very near the school and bridge over I - 5 at Oceanside, on the beachward side of the Ramada.

(loved shopping in the 100% hispanic grocery store - at least at 10pm it was: seriously. Had fun visiting with several people in there. The produce guy spoke no English though - pointed me to the fresh peppers in produce after I asked for hot tomales or candy department).

Back to "glad you posted" - help me with a question I put on the UBC forum of Canada.

I saw trees near L. A. blooming now, with pinkish red flowers. Not the fuzzy orange balls flowering trees - although I want to know that one too - but the pink blossoms. Up to like 30' tall. Buzzing by while traveling, they remind me of Magnolia stellata-like blossoms. Round array of petals that may be a little tweaked looking. Didn't look like racemes or anything. Just a single corolla.

Just for fun, I tucked my business card in the weather seal of the drivers window on an "American Tree Service" truck parked in front of a service station at 4am, as my daughter and her husband drove me to the train station in San Diego. Tree guy is probably scratching his head "what the ??"

 

[Canyonbc]

haha...San Diego, is a town like none others...

 

[jomoco]

I'm glad you posted.

By the way, I really loved the trees down there. There's a lot of nicely pruned trees all over the place. I stayed in the Ramada, and walked around town on foot, and drove too. That's one of the palms very near the school and bridge over I - 5 at Oceanside, on the beachward side of the Ramada.

(loved shopping in the 100% hispanic grocery store - at least at 10pm it was: seriously. Had fun visiting with several people in there. The produce guy spoke no English though - pointed me to the fresh peppers in produce after I asked for hot tomales or candy department).

Back to "glad you posted" - help me with a question I put on the UBC forum of Canada.

I saw trees near L. A. blooming now, with pinkish red flowers. Not the fuzzy orange balls flowering trees - although I want to know that one too - but the pink blossoms. Up to like 30' tall. Buzzing by while traveling, they remind me of Magnolia stellata-like blossoms. Round array of petals that may be a little tweaked looking. Didn't look like racemes or anything. Just a single corolla.

Just for fun, I tucked my business card in the weather seal of the drivers window on an "American Tree Service" truck parked in front of a service station at 4am, as my daughter and her husband drove me to the train station in San Diego. Tree guy is probably scratching his head "what the ??"

If you could post some pictures I could probably give you some precise answers to your questions.

It's kinda late in the flowering season for Jacaranda (Jacaranda mimosofolia) trees to be blooming here, but I have seen a few in town still carrying their blooms, but they are more purple than pink. They could also be Mimosa trees(Albizia julibrissin) which do have truly pink flowers.

As far as orange flower balls, that's a little harder because it's too early for any Chinese flame trees (Koelreuteria bipinnata) to be in flower, but I guess it's possible. These trees always flower at the top or very ends of their branches.

Without pictures I'm just guessing though with all the different species found here in So Cal.

I'm glad you enjoyed your trip down here though, I know I enjoyed my trip up to Seattle this year.

jomoco

 

[M.D. Vaden]

If you could post some pictures I could probably give you some precise answers to your questions.

It's kinda late in the flowering season for Jacaranda (Jacaranda mimosofolia) trees to be blooming here, but I have seen a few in town still carrying their blooms, but they are more purple than pink. They could also be Mimosa trees(Albizia julibrissin) which do have truly pink flowers.

As far as orange flower balls, that's a little harder because it's too early for any Chinese flame trees (Koelreuteria bipinnata) to be in flower, but I guess it's possible. These trees always flower at the top or very ends of their branches.

Without pictures I'm just guessing though with all the different species found here in So Cal.

I'm glad you enjoyed your trip down here though, I know I enjoyed my trip up to Seattle this year.

jomoco

Someone at the UBC forum offered a suggestion of bauhinia purpurea which sounds like a candidate for the one.

The orange pom pom ball one is this - only one of the two I have a photo for...

 

[jomoco]

Someone at the UBC forum offered a suggestion of bauhinia purpurea which sounds like a candidate for the one.

The orange pom pom ball one is this - only one of the two I have a photo for...

That sure looks like a Eucalyptus ficifolia or flowering euc to me, they don't get very tall, and really look nothing like the typical eucalyptus tree, their flowers are quite striking and beautiful.

Good picture!

compare it to the picture in this link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corymbia_ficifolia

jomoco

 

[M.D. Vaden]

That sure looks like a Eucalyptus ficifolia or flowering euc to me, they don't get very tall, and really look nothing like the typical eucalyptus tree, their flowers are quite striking and beautiful.

Good picture!

compare it to the picture in this link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corymbia_ficifolia

jomoco

That Wiki page sounds about right. The fruit it shows is the same too. Seems to be shaped slightly different depending on how mature it is.

Yes, this one wasn't much over 15' tall.

Nice bark, and nice leaves as well.

 

[NickfromWI]

MD- the flowers with the magnoila-esque flowers..maybe Silk Floss Tree? Chorisia espiciosa? They just finished up flowering here this past week.

In your first pic, that isn't an oak. It's a fig!!! Not one of the OTHER ficuses, but it is an actual fig...as in fig newtons!

I concur on the ficifolia Euc...Chorymbia....MAKE UP YOUR MIND!!!!

love
nick

 

[Bermie]

Back to plants in palms if I may....

We get, Ficus retusa (Indial laurel) and Schefflera actinophylla (Umbrella plant) as the two top culprits growing in palms. Ficus will eventually grow big enough to kill the palm if it is not removed and schefflera is becoming more and more of a problem now.

One of the more attractive 'hangers on' is sword fern, it really is attractive up in the head of a large Phoenix palm and causes no problems.

 

[M.D. Vaden]

Back to plants in palms if I may....

We get, Ficus retusa (Indial laurel) and Schefflera actinophylla (Umbrella plant) as the two top culprits growing in palms. Ficus will eventually grow big enough to kill the palm if it is not removed and schefflera is becoming more and more of a problem now.

One of the more attractive 'hangers on' is sword fern, it really is attractive up in the head of a large Phoenix palm and causes no problems.

I'd enjoy seeing an image of one with ferns.

Here's the close-up cropped section of the tree posted earlier. Looks much more fig-like enlarged...

 

[pbtree]

That sure looks like a Eucalyptus ficifolia or flowering euc to me, they don't get very tall, and really look nothing like the typical eucalyptus tree, their flowers are quite striking and beautiful.

Good picture!

compare it to the picture in this link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corymbia_ficifolia

jomoco

I concur with jomoco - I have seen these trees down SD way when I used to live there in the late 90's.