Please help with identifing this tree?

[anthonystrd]

Hello I have four of these trees, here in San Antonio, TX I only have seen very few of them. I only scanned a pic of the leaf it is an exotic looking tree and the leaves are very large, tomorrow I will take I pic of the whole tree, for now I will post the leaf. Please help.

 

[deercatcher]

Does it have green smooth bark? A little bit of spidery webish white stuff on it? Have you observed it all year long, can you describe flower, fruit? It is either a Chinese Parasol Tree, or a Tung Oil Tree.

 

[l2edneck]

welcome aboard How tall are they?

 

[deercatcher]

http://home.att.net/~larvalbugbio/chinesetrees.html

Chinese parasol tree, varnish tree

 

[anthonystrd]

I over laid the two pics into one.

 

[anthonystrd]

Thank you very much, yes this is the tree. This is a very helpful and great site! I will be sure to come to this site again for any and all plant help.

 

[M.D. Vaden]

I thought the name of that tree sounded familiar.

Especially since I just posted about the giant poison oak. When I researched for my page http://www.mdvaden.com/poison_oak.shtml

I came across the name of that varnish plant.

It's true that there are not a lot of them. If it's the same one I'm thinking of, it should contain the same compound as poison oak.

Check out this Wickipedia page...

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

Same tree?

 

[xtremetrees]

Deercatcher is a genius.