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wisteria???

Posted: January 31st, 2018, 7:57 pm
by fishnfreak
New house purchased. Half acre block with lots of large 6m tall trees.
i have a driveway with a vinelike tree, 4 trunks, with the leaves...
Wisteria perhaps?Image

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Re: wisteria???

Posted: January 31st, 2018, 8:08 pm
by shibui
The leaves don't look like wisteria. It is vaguely familiar though.
Can you show an overall shot so we can see the entire plant and maybe some shots of trunk and bark please?

Re: wisteria???

Posted: January 31st, 2018, 8:21 pm
by fishnfreak
shibui wrote:The leaves don't look like wisteria. It is vaguely familiar though.
Can you show an overall shot so we can see the entire plant and maybe some shots of trunk and bark please?
im moving into it tomorrow so i will get some more pics and have a bunch more questions!

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Re: wisteria???

Posted: January 31st, 2018, 9:49 pm
by melbrackstone
could it be Tecomaria capensis?

Re: wisteria???

Posted: February 1st, 2018, 8:01 pm
by shibui
Tecomaria is very likely Mel. If it is, it is still likely to have some orange trumpet flowers somewhere on it, even this late in the season. Pretty, but a very invasive weedy species.

My advice - try to get rid of it :x Sprouts new plants from the roots, sometimes metres away on the other side of the concrete driveway :o It even started to grow up through the floor boards in one house I rented :x

Re: wisteria???

Posted: February 2nd, 2018, 7:17 am
by fishnfreak
shibui wrote:Tecomaria is very likely Mel. If it is, it is still likely to have some orange trumpet flowers somewhere on it, even this late in the season. Pretty, but a very invasive weedy species.

My advice - try to get rid of it :x Sprouts new plants from the roots, sometimes metres away on the other side of the concrete driveway :o It even started to grow up through the floor boards in one house I rented :x
wow!
good thing its on the chop list. I need to widen the driveway by a metre so i will be cutting back a 3m tall Crassula, 2x 5m tall Olives, a couple of 4m tall "unidentified", concreteing the garden bed and then planting possibly a clumping bamboo in its place...ImageImageImage

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