Help ID on plants

[MasonC]

yer. i have 3 tridents and all them have different bark and leaves

[Jamie]

yer. i have 3 tridents and all them have different bark and leaves

im in the same boat there mate, i have two at the moment and am recieving two tomorrow, and i am sure they will have some form of variation between them all.
the only way to propagate the same type of leave, bark etc is to take cuttings, there fore having the same genetics of the parent tree.
i am starting to wonder how much variation i am going to have with the 100 seeds i bought.

[MasonC]

hmmmm.... are they like liquidamber because they can have completely different coloured leaves from the same parent tree. i don't know how thats even possible but it happens!

[Jamie]

im not sure mate, but i do know it comes down to the genetics side of things, the combination of the parent trees. as you can appreciate the fact that if one tree is pollanised by another tree one year you get a mix of the two trees characteristics. where as if that same tree is pollanised by a different tree the next year it will display different characteristics of those two trees, or there maybe multiple cross polinations by serveral trees causing that same trees seed to display multiple different characteristics from the trees it was pollanised by.

regards jamie

[MasonC]

that explains my thoery.thanx jamie

[Jamie]

no worries mate... i just re-read my post, its like i just explained the birds and the bees for trees

[MasonC]

lol

[jwishbone]

thanks heaps guys

just makes it easier for me to research proper care for this plants!


thas ok.. one day a nice trident will come along! hehe...

thanks again guys!

[MasonC]

yer.you always get good advice off this site