Thanks to all for your responses in helping identify the last post. Here are a few more in need of id help. 1 -- A waist high shrub 2 -- Hedge Bush 3 -- Huge evergreen with small slender leaves, earlier id suggestions podocarpus salignus & callistemon, worth another look? 4 -- Small deciduous tree, possibly fruit-bearing, flowering now 5 -- Flowers of above tree 6 -- Single stemmed 2ft high plant 7 -- Variegated leafy plant TIA, Dukhi.
3 - Definitely not Podocarpus; could well be Callistemon. 7 - Alternate leaves, so not Acer; maybe Abutilon?
I'd like to question the Podocarp option further for #3. Michael, you said in the other thread that this has opposite leaves and that Podocarps don't, but it seems to have varied leaf spacing and on my podocarp plants, apparently opposite leaves do occur as they seem to emerge more or less in a random spiral. In this photo the leaves do seem to be MOSTLY opposite which may disincline to Podocarp, mind you.
The more I look at #3 the more I am starting to think it's not Callistemon after all (leaves for Callistemon are opposite but spirally arranged, and this one is opposite and pinnately arranged), but due to that pinnate arrangement maybe something in the Acacieae tribe or something else in the Mimosoidea subfamily... Which I'm well aware is a lot of different trees. Sorry I can't help you more.
Been checking up - the genus Afrocarpus (closely related to, and formerly included within, Podocarpus) does have opposite to subopposite leaves. So #3 could well be an Afrocarpus species.
A tip in another forum led to a Stanford tree page. I trekked down to a couple of the addresses listed and the mystery evergreen is indeed Afrocarpus. Many thanks to all.
