A big thanks to all who stop by to have a look. I think this tree is Pittosporum tobira, am I right or wrong? Thanks again for stopping by.
Hi again, This time I can disagree! I own an olive grove and I am very familiar with this sp. Imagine when I used to personally collect the olives on 40 olive trees. Thanks and I always look for your replies. The leaves in the 1st photograph are almost similar to the Olea. Ciao.
I'm sorry to hear that... but let's go back to botany: it can't be a Pittosporum, because it has 4 petalas, while Pittosporum has 5 petals (and the flowers are much smaller, than Pittosporum flowers.)
I'd say yes. I've never been nosy enough to intrude into the sex lives of olives or their relatives before, so not sure what that means, though.
As fare as I know, Olea used to have hermaphrodic flowers (and some extra male flowers on each raceme). So I think the female looking flower was also hermaphrodic, but the petals and the stamens are already fallen.
The 2 photographs I submitted as Pittosporum tobira, were given to me by a friend. He identified them as P.tobira, I didn't bother to check as I thought he knew better than I. Now I will upload photographs from my own file which I identified as P. tobira. When I compared the file I was given with my own file there is no comparison. I thought he was right and I was wrong.
Lovely plant, thanks for adding it the thread for comparison. This thread highlights a number of challenges we face. As people interested in botany, but even more so with people interested in useful plants foraging. It's very easy to operate on assumptions and we believe what we are already inclined toward. When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I can often see similarities between plants, but it can be dangerous to loosely categorize something as a mint when it might be a nightshade. This was a good exercise in identifying a species.
Hi thanrose, If the forum will permit me to upload 1 photo of Mentha longifolius as a comparison with a few photographs of a similar sp. of Mentha, which I rightly or wrongly, identified it as Mentha longifolius. This will be a great help to members and myself. Thanks again.
