Casurina for sure. Have a handful of it at my place. Very hard tree, cultivated these days for use as scaffolding in the construction industry. The timber is so hard and so full of knots that it is impossible to be used in furniture. An enthusiastic carpenter found to his woe that not possible to be used in furniture after breaking a handful of chisels. Regards Yazdy Palia.
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Madhuri Raut <itii...@gmail.com> wrote: > Respected members > kindly identify the tree with following specifications. I could not > photograph it well as it is a very tall tree amongst other trees. It has > thin leaves in bunches with whitish glassy shiny tips. they look like green > fibre glass whorls. The lowest branch had tiny red flowers all along. The > tree was full of round small berry like fruits. The spiny seeds(i think) had > fallen down which I have photographed > > Date/Time- August 2011 > > Location- Place, Altitude, GPS- Pune Maharashtra > > Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- Garden > > Plant Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb- tree > > Height/Length- very tall > > Leaves Type/ Shape/ Size- green thin strips in bunches with shiny tips > > Flowers Size/ Colour/ Calyx/ Bracts- small red flowers all along the branch > > Fruits Type/ Shape/ Size Seeds- woody hard seeds > > Regards > > Bhagyashri >
