Hi! We've been trying to identify this plant, but haven't been able to, so now we are hoping you can help us. It has a small fragrance, and is coated with some sort of white felt. The leave has no petiole as far as I can see, and there is something that kind of looks like a stipule, but I might be wrong. We are from Northen California, but the plant might not be native from here (although, we saw a tree that smelt very similar and looked kind of similar but the leaves on that tree were more like oval/orbiculate). I attach you a photo of the full plant (The plant is 1 to 2 feet). And another photo, this time of the leaves. Their size is from 0.1cm to 2cm roughly. There is no flower that we can see, but it might be the wrong season (the thing in the top just seems to be another set of leaves). Hopefully someone can point us in the right direction :), or perhaps someone knows what it is! Thank you!!
Thanks Daniel! We bought it as part of a flower arrangement because we wanted to know what this was (for the fragrance), the cashier had no idea, but it's supposed to be local (but you never know.. although for their credit it did come with what looks like a californian sunflower, so maybe it is local).
(we are from near San Francisco Bay area, the tree we saw that kind of smelt the same was in Palo Alto, near Stanford) here are more pics, in case it helps.
Yayy you are right :-) I didn't know eucalyptus looked like that when young! But indeed that's exactly right. http://treesofsantacruzcounty.blogspot.com/2011/03/eucalyptus-globulus-blue-gum.html I was wondering how to make finding species easier in the future, but I couldn't find anything. Is there a worldwide species database keyed by plant attributes I can query for next time? I think maybe old-ish books have the most standardized descriptions, so I could maybe extract the data from there to make things easier for the next guy.
