can someone ID this for me please

stevebullman

stevebullman

a customer gave me this cutting today and asked me what it was....i have no idea and couldnt find it in my book
the seed pod is sort of puffy if that helps.
 

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cheers jimmy....i posted this at mb's site and a few guys came up with the same answer.....i guess i'll go with the majority!

that was the only tree i found in my book before i posted this....but wasnt 100% sure on it as the pic in the book showed the fruit attached immediately to the stem whereas in the cutting i had the fruit had 2inch long stalks
 
I've been racking my brain-that seed is familiar._I don't think the Hickory ID is correct.It could just about match Mexican Buckeye-but The mature fruit is diufferent-----Maybe that is the apearance of the immature seedpod but....I still think there is something out there that is the right answer.
 
I think it is definitely not a hickory.

Seems more of a tree belonging in china or asia.

The fruit looks soft, hickory leaves are, as far as I know smooth along the edges.
Do you have a picture of the entire tree, or its bark??

Frank
 
i will try get a pic next time i go to the site, not sure when that will be though. not sure a picture of the bark will hope all that much as from what i can gather its quite a small sample
 
If you can get another pic of the mature fruit, and if possible a twig closeup, I think it'd help tree-mendously! It could indeed be a Pignut Hickory whose fruit an insect had perhaps oviposited some eggs into that caused some freakish hypertrophy, but for some reason I suspect it's some sort of asiatic species, as buddingtree suggested. Also, it's possible that fruit is mistakenly mismatched with the leaves. Devilish ID this has been, IMHO, as Stumper I'm sure agrees.
 
What part of the world are you in? Where does this tree grow? What does the bark look like, how big is the tree, and what kind of form does it have. It looks from the picture like the leaves are pinnately compound, not bipinnate or plain opposite, but it's not quite clear. No offense to any guesses, but it's surely not a hickory. What's inside that capsule? It looks kinda like Koelreuteria bipinnata but I think the capsules are more angular and not so puffy.
I'm curious.
 
Folks,
From the second picture, you can see the leaves are opposite. All Carya's are alternate. Dunno what it is (yet), but it ISN'T a hickory, etal.
 
it sort of looks like bladderpod a caperacea. in southern california it was a large bush, I doubt that that s what it is but thats what i first thought of when I saw that pod. . Was it a big tree? or what was its architecture
 
sorry havent checked in on this threade for a while. i think i will be going to the site where the tree is next week so will hopefully get some better pics
 
It may be a type of Staphylea (bladdernut). The species we have in the east is Staphylea trifolia. The pic you provided has five leaflets. S. trifolia usually has three, but may have five leaflets.
 
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Looks like Koelreuteria paniculata. Golden rain tree to me.

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That came to mind for me too, but a second glance shows this tree to have a smooth entire leaf margin.
 
i knew it wasn't pignut hickory or golden raintree from the photos. kylimbwalker is right it's a bladdernut. It's either staphlea pinnata or s. colchica (both have 5 leaflets)
 
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