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Tree ID please

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Hi guys need some help IDing this tree. Its a common street tree here in melbourne that grows little yellow fruit and has a light pink flower I'm assuming it's a native. Sorry by the time I took the picture flowers were gone.
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Earlier this year I got one that had been hit by a car, really didn't think it would make it and the cut I did probably not the best :whistle: .
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A few months later and this thing is going nuts and now I'm not shore what to do. I'm thinking of leaving it until winter to do some pruning. But I need to find the species 1st and read up on it.
Any tips and advice is greatly appreciated.
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Re: Tree ID please

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:gday: Not Austalian Native.
Meliaceae, the mahogany family of flowering plants, of the order Sapindales.
The China tree (Melia azedarach), also called chinaberry, bead tree, and Persian lilac, is an ornamental deciduous Asian tree with round yellow fruits, often cultivated in many tropical and warm temperate areas.

The flowers are small and highly fragrant, with five pale purple or lilac petals, growing in clusters. The fruit is a drupe, marble-sized, light yellow at maturity, hanging on the tree all winter, and gradually becoming wrinkled and almost white. The leaves are up to 50 cm long, alternate, long-petioled, 2 or 3 times compound (odd-pinnate); the leaflets are dark green above and lighter green below, with serrate margins.

It is a common ornamental street tree in Melbourne. Today it is considered an invasive species as its seeds sprout easily and are transported by birds far and wide.
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spot on Kirky.
pop up in concrete crevices, pot plants.
Hollow spindly new growth...............grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..as bad as couch once they get going.


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Not Austalian Native. Meliaceae, the mahogany family of flowering plants, of the order Sapindales.
The China tree (Melia azedarach), also called chinaberry, bead tree, and Persian lilac, is an ornamental deciduous Asian tree with round yellow fruits, often cultivated in many tropical and warm temperate areas.
Interesting Kirky. I believe it is also an Australian native. So does the Australian National Herbarium it appears
White Cedar is native to Australia and South East Asia
http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/interns-2008 ... arach.html
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Thanks guys, I thought because it was the council planting these trees in the nature strip it had to be native. But that's probably assuming to much.
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[/quote] http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/interns-2008 ... arach.html[/quote]

Thanks Neil, handy link I think I'm going to call mine a melia australis just to make it more native. :tu2:
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I stand corrected Neil. I always thought it was from Asia.
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