10/13/04 Number 3

[NickfromWI]

Ok, I have no clue what the heck this thing is. It's not much more than 30' high. As you can see, it is multi-stemmed. There are some light-green berries (that may change color later in the year??).

What do you make of it?

love
nick

 

[NickfromWI]

Here's what the leaves/berries look like.

 

[NickfromWI]

And a zoomed out view of the whole tree.

 

[jimmyq]

is that the same tree as Mark posted the other day? Gymnocladus?

 

[ptar]

I don't think so, the coffeberry has a pod-like fruit.
I am guessing chinaberry (Melia azederach or azedarach)
also called Pride of india, Persian lilac, bead tree.
Are the leaves bipinnately compound?
I hope I'm wrong because it's considered a weed...

 

[NickfromWI]

If by bipinnately compound you mean that the leaflets are found in pairs directly across eachother across the axis (leaf stalk?), then yes, they are bipinnately compound. I get the feeling just looking at the tree that it is a weed tree like a box elder.

But as it is now, I like how it looks, it provides good shade, and it's not hurtin' nothin'.

love
nick

 

[ptar]

Nick,
This is what I mean by bipinnate.
Dirr claims it is a pest but it may not be in
the western states. It's not in the California
invasive plant list. It looks nice.

 

[Leon]

I vote for Melia azederach as well.