What kind of trees do I have?
Dear internet,
I like knowing what trees/plants are nearby. Unfortunately, I grew up in Wisconsin and so my tree-names are very Midwestern. I know a few of the plants here–we have a lovely birch tree and a bougainvillea. But there are a number of California plants at my new house and I don’t know their names. Can anyone help me? I want to care for them properly.
(Yes, there are plant-identifying books, but I thought I’d start with just asking people.)
#1: Sorry about the bad photography. Anyway, there’s three of these trees nearby. My neighbor said they were “piro-something”(?)
#2: Fairly sure this is the same tree as #1. Same leaf shape, same berry shape, etc. But why is this one in blossom with only a few berries, while the one next to it is all berried?
#3: Probably hopeless, but this tall skinny tree–any idea? I don’t have a zoom lens to get the leaves in the picture, but maybe the trunk would help.
#4: I have no idea what’s going on here. This is in the garden, and there’s a few of them. I can’t tell if it’s a hybrid plant or what. It’s about 4 feet tall. A shrubbery of some sort?
#5: Some sort of dwarf tree? A shrub? Maybe 3 feet tall. I have no idea if it will get better because I don’t know what it is.
#6: This picture came out badly, but that spiky flower-thing is bright red and looks like a sea anemone. I’ve seen this plant elsewhere and I bet someone knows it.
#7: Especially interested in knowing this one. The orange-red flowers are shaped like trumpets and there’s lots of hummingbirds drinking from them. It’s the plant I see outside my writing window.
ETA: WHY will these not resize? ARGH. Fixing… (I hope)
October 19, 2010 3:08 pm
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By Lor S., October 19, 2010 @ 4:33 pm
The second-to-last is a bottlebrush tree.
By Vylar, October 20, 2010 @ 9:32 am
Thanks! Folks on LJ identified it too. We’ve got almost all of them now.
By J. Kathleen Cheney, October 20, 2010 @ 1:40 pm
The third appeared to be either a quaking aspen or a cottonwood (in the same family.)
By Vylar, October 20, 2010 @ 2:06 pm
Oh, here I see your comment. I get it.