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Tree with purple/pink clustered flowers - lots of photos
Posted: January 24th, 2016, 12:49 pm
by Redsonic
Re: Tree with purple/pink clustered flowers - lots of photos
Posted: January 24th, 2016, 1:14 pm
by lukeaaustin
Hey mate,
Pretty sure it's common name is Corkwood.
Cheers, luke
Re: Tree with purple/pink clustered flowers - lots of photos
Posted: January 24th, 2016, 1:41 pm
by Redsonic
lukeaaustin wrote:Hey mate,
Pretty sure it's common name is Corkwood.
Cheers, luke
Thanks Luke. A little searching for Corkwood found the culprit:
Mellicope elleryana, The Pink Flowered Doughwood, or Evodia.
Wikipedia
It is also known as a butterfly tree. Loved by the Ulysses butterfly apparently:
Ausbonsai comes through for me again!
Re: Tree with purple/pink clustered flowers - lots of photos
Posted: January 24th, 2016, 7:20 pm
by bonsaibruce
I have just got rid of one of these. It would not shoot low down and always grew very vertical. It is a rain forest tree. I got it as tube stock at least 15 years ago. It never flowered.
Re: Tree with purple/pink clustered flowers - lots of photos
Posted: January 24th, 2016, 11:10 pm
by kvan64
Nice flowers though. I would give it a go if I have the stock.
