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Conifer @ zoo?

Posted: August 7th, 2022, 11:52 am
by Daluke
This guy always impresses. Don’t know his name though?

Re: Conifer @ zoo?

Posted: August 7th, 2022, 11:53 am
by Daluke
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Re: Conifer @ zoo?

Posted: August 7th, 2022, 12:03 pm
by greg27
Maybe wollemi pine? The leaves look a little small though...

Re: Conifer @ zoo?

Posted: August 7th, 2022, 12:21 pm
by Daluke
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Re: Conifer @ zoo?

Posted: August 7th, 2022, 12:28 pm
by Daluke
I thought maybe a redwood.

Re: Conifer @ zoo?

Posted: August 7th, 2022, 5:22 pm
by shibui
Always hard to Id just from a few leaves. I spotted the trunk in the background which gives more clues.
With foliage and trunk I'd say one of the redwoods too.
There's 2 North American redwoods - Sequoia sempervirens - Coast redwood/ California redwood and Sequoiadendron giganteum - giant redwood
Pretty sure that flat foliage is Sequoia sempivirons.

Up in the pine plantation near here there's a plantation of these now known as the 'magic forest'. Probably not quite as old as the zoo tree but still very impressive trunks, especially when there's a couple of hundred close together.

Re: Conifer @ zoo?

Posted: August 8th, 2022, 12:46 pm
by Grant Bowie
It is probably a taxus of some kind(Yew)

Grant

Re: Conifer @ zoo?

Posted: August 8th, 2022, 3:21 pm
by treeman
It's Sequoia sempervirens. You can confirm by looking at the trunk.

Re: Conifer @ zoo?

Posted: August 12th, 2022, 9:23 am
by Grant Bowie
Yes, you are right, Semper Fi.

Grant