I am good with native trees, but this might be some sort of ornamental. It was placed 47 years ago in the center of a "Prayer Circle" for a relative who was killed in a plane crash. It is only about 14" diameter despite the age.
If I'm under it and a pecan falls on my head it's a pecan tree. Likewise with an apple, pear, watermelon, etc. I don't see anything identifiable on that tree that might fall on my head so I'm going to call it a prayer tree, because that's all it brings to mind.
[sarcasm]How presumptuous of you!!!!! You have no right to impose your idea of it's identity......hater!!!!!![/sarcasm]
As one of my Party Chiefs once said "Shade Tree"
The flowers resemble those of a Golden Rain Tree, a native of China and Korea.
Tiswood
[sarcasm]Instead of naming them maybe we should just move to a system of rating them on GPSability[/sarcasm]
I'd like to vote on some variety of Chestnut.
R.J. Schneider, post: 371356, member: 409 wrote: I'd like to vote on some variety of Chestnut.
Except, don't Chestnuts produce catkins when they flower? Those aren't catkins in the photo.
chinaberry
Holy Cow, post: 371343, member: 50 wrote: If I'm under it and a pecan falls on my head it's a pecan tree. Likewise with an apple, pear, watermelon, etc.
My wife thinks like you. It took me years to convince her that we had Oak trees, not Acorn trees.
James
Middle daughter lives in one of those dreaded subdivisions where people fret profusely over things that don't mean beans to people in the free part of the world. She posted on Facebook about her discussions with her neighbor about how he is going to rebuild the fence between them and how HE WILL move it a few inches ONTO his property or else. A co-worker who was a classmate of hers reported this to me and added that he had posted the following for her to see: That acorn didn't fall far from the oak.
Discovered later that Mrs. Cow had commented: Sounds like a surveyor's daughter.
http://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/golden-rain-tree
In America, it was planted as a small shade tree, a street tree, and in lawns and terraces, but its invasiveness makes it a poor choice. In its native China, Japan and Korea, it is a favorite tree to plant at the graves of prominent people and on the grounds of holy sites.
They are common in New Orleans and there are a few around here too.
In Fl. Golden Rain Tree's are considered an invasive species.
To my field crew, there are four kinds of trees.
- Palm - a tree that looks like it is from Hawaii, Los Angleles, or In-N-Out Burger
- Pine - a tree that looks like it might be a christmas tree
- Oak - a tree which is a protected tree that would require a developer to pay lots of money in mitigation if they want it moved/removed
- Other - everything else.
I've had a party chief turn in notes locating "fur trees".
I had a guy shoot the tow of the slope.
How about top brake
Or the storm drain great...
Bolder
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