Do you know this tree?
I grew up outside LA in a house with fantastic trees: avacado, fig, lime, pomegranite, sour lemon/orange, hairy palms, apricot, all sorts of roses and plants, my brothers weed. And then there was a very large anti-social tree out front. My parents loved and hated it. We lived on a busy street, it was nice to have a 40 foot evergreen out front like a miniature forest. They hated it because it was painful to prune, and they were afraid it would kill someone because periodically these things fell out of it that look like huge granades or like rounded pineapples without the leafy plume at the top. Only they were the size of five or six pineapples. The leaves/boughs look something like a norfolk pine from a distance, or like a spruce but if the needles were flattened and waxy with a small thorn at the end. Someone told my dad it was from South America, I think. Well?
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3 comments:
John says could be a Jeffery Pine or a Bishop Pine. Both have large cones, which can weigh up to five lbs. He also added that they have killed people. Glad it wasn't you or any of your sibs!
Before posting this I thought "I should just ask John" !
i'm kind of surprised how hard it is to find this sort of information on the web, especially concerning this particular tree. There are botanical sites but most are for purchasing saplings, and this is a very unpopular tree for obvious reasons.
but no, it's neither of those. and actually i'm not sure it's a pine tree because it doesn't really have needles. from a distance it looks like a big christmas tree. but it has compound sharp leaves in clusters. when the leaves/boughs die and fall off they turn brown and become even sharper. this is off the subject, but i just remembered that we also had a rubber tree. my brother and i would climb up and scratch into the bark to make it bleed white sap. we would ball up the sap in our hands.
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