Wonderful surprises keep happening - I've been unable to ID this with various search terms. As always, any help appreciated.
Well, you have my curiousity. I'd like to see the resolution to this; my searches came up empty the other day, but the fruit suggests I was looking at the wrong families.
Well , Tyrlych- I know what you mean about ending with nothing after long searches. And Daniel, will be happy to post resolution if I find it. The search continues.
I'm not going to be the one who finds this, but I'll ask for more info anyway. You're there, right? Can you get a better picture of the leaves and the leaf arrangement? How big are the fruits? Hard outside? Is that a pit inside? The bark is smooth and uniform colour - that's just sunlight that makes it look mottled? And what's going on with the flowers - the yellow bits are attached to the orange bits? Each flower has one yellow thing attached to one of the sepals? How big are they?
This is truly an OMG moment - I have photos of Gmelina leichhardtii from Melbourne RBG and wondered about the similarity of the flowers. However did you diagnose this species? Very grateful for your help.
Seems to be Lamiaceae now. If I could type faster, I'd have seen your answer before I posted all those questions.
Phew! Well done Tyrlych. Now I can relax. ..it was driving me dotty as well. Beautiful flower. Gmelina arborea, - Google Search Gmelina arborea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sure, with the name, though it's pretty clear from so many photos. I'm so happy we have the name. Three of my flickr contacts have posted photos of that or other Gmelina, but it was quite a while ago and I needed the name to find the photos.
