AusBonsai

Hi guys, can you help me ID this tree? I tried Google but was unsuccessful. The fruit is about the size of a gumnut and smells of citrus when opened. It caught my interest with the small fruit and gnarly branch structure

I had one of these (or something similar) pop itself up at my parents house.

The fruit smelled sort of citrus like. Never did figure out what it was though! Grows like mad when cut back at the right time too but tends to shoot higher up.

I never bothered with it as a Bonsai, just because the stock I had was pretty uninteresting.

Hopefully an ID can be confirmed by someone else on here, I'd be keen to find out myself.

Cheers,
Mo

Pittosporum species, probably undulatum.

Fruits look ripe. You can pick a few and see if they open, otherwise wait until some open and pick out the seed. Should have good success germinating from fresh seed.

I have a tree in my yard with leaves & fruit that look similar however mine is only just starting to get flower buds at the moment. The closest thing I can find online that appears to be similar is the Tuckeroo tree.
The birds love the fruit but I have to admit that I haven't investigated it enough to bother to smell the fruit as yet. Occasionally seedlings come up around the garden & I have one in a small pot but I dont think it will make a very good bonsai specimen. The leaves are just too large. We pruned some low branches on the parent tree when we first moved in about 5-6 years ago and I haven't noticed any back branching on older wood at all.
I hope you have more luck than I have had in finding out what it is.
Cheers, Rianne

dansai wrote:Pittosporum species, probably undulatum.

Looks right to me... at least according to the google images I came across .

Cheers mate,
Mo

I believe it to be this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loquat
IF so they are edible.

Don't take my word for it thought!

Massive leaves and not what I would consider a good specimen for "Bonsaiing"!

Hey Boics,

Definitely not a loquat, have had plenty and the leaves, fruit and branchlets are different.

Cheers,
Mo


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Yeh.

I reckon you're right Mo.

After I posted I looked at the photo's again and the shiny leaves and fruit bunches don't really match?

dansai wrote:Pittosporum species, probably undulatum.

Seems like the most likely candidate, Google images certainly seem to match and Wikipedia says it's native to coastal Victoria (we're 50k's from the south coast.) Thanks all. Do you think the leaves would reduce?

Phoenix238 wrote:

dansai wrote:Pittosporum species, probably undulatum.

Seems like the most likely candidate, Google images certainly seem to match and Wikipedia says it's native to coastal Victoria (we're 50k's from the south coast.) Thanks all. Do you think the leaves would reduce?

It is Pittosporum Undulatum also known as sweet pittosporum and if it was me I would cut it down and poison it, then poison again. They are an absolute weed and seed everywhere. I collect just about any but I wouldn't bother with these
Not sure if the leaves reduce but would take a lot I would think as they are fairly big. I am pulling them out by the dozen at work and spraying the stumps and they just keep growing

Josh

Interesting that they are considered a weed down your way Josh. Their range includes your area to way up north of me into Queensland. I know they have become weedy in Sydney due to run off from gardens supplying extra water and nutrients into bushland favouring these and others over other species.

Josh wrote:spraying the stumps and they just keep growing

Try some undiluted glysophate applied to outer edge from the cambium layer out after cutting them.

Heres a link that confirms what both Josh and I have commented above.

Hmm, fair call guys. I'll have a think about it, thanks

Cane toad in plant form...?!


Cheers
Elmar