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Gardening => Mystery Plants => Topic started by: Dianna on May 06, 2010, 02:36:14 PM

Title: I Don't Have A Name...[Solved] Chinaberry Melia azedarach
Post by: Dianna on May 06, 2010, 02:36:14 PM: Anyone have any idea what this plant is? It is a shrub and that is all I know. Jim brought home a sprig of it hoping that it could be identified...:)

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Title: Re: I Don't Have A Name...
Post by: Tina on May 06, 2010, 04:44:42 PM: Do those flowers smell very nice? It looks like some type of jasmine to me.
Title: Re: I Don't Have A Name...
Post by: Dianna on May 06, 2010, 04:54:48 PM: I didn't smell of them, Tina, but I will ask Jim if he noticed a smell when he took the "cutting" from it. Thanks for your suggetion. I will start googling jasmine now... :grinnnn:
Title: Re: I Don't Have A Name...
Post by: UNCLEG on May 10, 2010, 05:27:29 PM: Looks like a faux bamboo, not sure of the proper name. Will usually have red berries n the fal of year. The only thing throwing me of being positive is the leaf color. generall the leaves are tinged with red and orange.
Title: Re: I Don't Have A Name...
Post by: UNCLEG on May 11, 2010, 04:55:29 PM: Fancy bamboo, Proper name Nandina...accoriding to nursery I worlk for it should redden up in the fall. Thats my guess.
Title: Re: I Don't Have A Name...
Post by: Tina on May 11, 2010, 05:17:46 PM: No, it isn't nandina, I don't think. I have a lot of that and that doesn't quite look like it.
Title: Re: I Don't Have A Name...
Post by: Dianna on May 11, 2010, 05:57:18 PM: Jim was googling this last night and found out that it is a Chinaberry Melia azedarach (http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/node/266)... :grinnnn:

Thank you all for your suggestions...:NewHug:
Title: Re: I Don't Have A Name...[Solved] Chinaberry Melia azedarach
Post by: Tina on May 11, 2010, 08:28:26 PM: I'm going to have to look for blooms on the chinaberries around here. i have never noticed them. Chinaberries are not a favorite tree of mine because they breed too easily and are very, very brittle. They break easily and huge trunks fall off and they split in half if you look at them funny. Not a tree that is nice to climb nor safe to sit under for long.