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    Identification of small tree from Sichuan mountains

    Leaves are opposite. No milky sap.
    Post by: Occidentalis, Oct 27, 2015 in forum: Plants: Identification
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    Identification of small tree from Sichuan mountains

    Ron B, Indeed the mountains of south-western Sichuan are surely the world's greatest temperate refugium - full of mysteries and surprises. I...
    Post by: Occidentalis, Sep 14, 2015 in forum: Plants: Identification
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    Identification of small tree from Sichuan mountains

    A photo of a seedling... A detail of the fruit...
    Post by: Occidentalis, Sep 14, 2015 in forum: Plants: Identification
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    Identification of small tree from Sichuan mountains

    Thanks for the help. Leaf characteristics and geographic distribution certainly seem to line up with Cornus koehneana. But the seed is not...
    Post by: Occidentalis, Sep 13, 2015 in forum: Plants: Identification
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    Identification of shrub from the Grieg Rhodo Garden

    Thanks, Ron and Silver surfer. I am going with it being Stachyurus praecox. Though there seems to be some confusion in the photos that I can find...
    Post by: Occidentalis, Sep 13, 2015 in forum: Plants: Identification
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    Identification of small tree from Sichuan mountains

    Hello, This small tree was photographed in the fall of 2013 along the Yalong river in south-western Sichuan. It was multi-stemmed and stood...
    Thread by: Occidentalis, Sep 13, 2015, 7 replies, in forum: Plants: Identification
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    Identification of shrub from the Grieg Rhodo Garden

    Hi all, The plant was photographed a few days ago in the Ted and Mary Grieg Rhododendron Garden neat Stanley Park. It is a large...
    Thread by: Occidentalis, Sep 13, 2015, 4 replies, in forum: Plants: Identification