[ID] Aussie native?

Andrew Legg · Post by **Andrew Legg** » April 17th, 2012, 5:18 pm

Hi All,

Hoping to identify this tree growing in front of my house, and I'm guessing it is some kind of gum. Any ideas?

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Cheers,

Andrew

Handy Mick · Post by **Handy Mick** » April 17th, 2012, 6:00 pm

sorry mate, not gum.
looks like massive lilly pilly, but probably not, not good at id.

mick

dbar7738 · Post by **dbar7738** » April 17th, 2012, 7:26 pm

Hi,

Yeah definitely not a gum. I think it may be some variety of fig. If you break a branch does it have milky sap?

Dan

Craig · Post by **Craig** » April 17th, 2012, 7:44 pm

Handy Mick wrote:sorry mate, not gum.
looks like massive lilly pilly, but probably not, not good at id.

mick

I think Mick might have it .

Andrew Legg · Post by **Andrew Legg** » April 17th, 2012, 8:01 pm

Hmmmmmmm

perhaps I need to look closer to home!

Magzy · Post by **Magzy** » April 17th, 2012, 8:08 pm

Does look very much like a lilly pilly, i have read they do grow in Cape Town and fruit is used in jams there.
Cheers Mark

Handy Mick · Post by **Handy Mick** » April 17th, 2012, 9:33 pm

If it is a Lilly pilly, that is a Aussie native.

Mick

chrisatrocky · Post by **chrisatrocky** » April 17th, 2012, 9:37 pm

It could be Waterhousia floribunda weeping lilly pilly. Very hard to tell as there are so many.

chris

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