wow, t.c.a.a.a. (totally cool awesome and amazing)!!!! the whole tree shot almost looked like a big oregon myrtle tree (umbellularia californica)---vern nice pics, very nice tree.

Holy ****! That's an awesome tree. I have Eucryphia x intermedia that's blooming now, but it'll be a long time before it reaches that size.

Cheers, Barrie.

Nice Yuccas too.

Do we know which cultivar/species of Eucryphia that is? (I know, the age old question...)

Hey Ian, how was your trip? Anyway, I was told by Ron B that it is Eucryphia x 'Nymansay'. Ron if my memory failed me on this one, then please feel free to correct me. There are 3-7" diameter suckers feet from the main trunk. It almost looks like a banyan tree when under it! I still can't believe how massive this tree is, relative to any other of it's kind growing near or far from this specimen. I think it will be blooming in about a month, as it had flower buds all over it. I was told by the previous owner of the property, that when it blooms in a good year, you can barely see the foliage.

-Brian

Hmm I'd better do cuttings!

The trip was well, fun, but I never did find Opuntia fragilis. I need to leave more time and do some walking around. I found some cool sedums between Palo Alto and the Dungeness Forks campground. And a very nice, huge, blue manzanita near Diamond Point... another one to do cuttings of.

How are the seeds on that Acacia dealbata?

Hi George. It does look like Umbellularia! If you look to the right of the Eucryphia in the seconed picture, and to the left in the third, you can see large Umbellularia's growing next to the Eucryphia. There are four or more Oregon myrtle trees on the property that are just as tall, or taller than the Eucryphia. The seedlings sprout all over the neighborhood, and some are getting large in thier own right.

-Brian

Hi Ian. I have not driven by the Acacia to check out the seeds yet, maybe tomorrow. As far as cuttings on the Eucryphia, that might be a good idea, but you might be better off pulling some of the hundereds of tiny suckers that have established roots, and try save yourself some time and effort!

-Brian

Would be the same clone, 'Nymansay', that is already easily found in nurseries. There were two named, 'Nymans A' ('Nymansay') and 'Nymans B'.

This specimen is the largest known in Washington. The late J. Witt, of the Seattle arboretum once told me of one in Seattle that was also "50 feet high", unfortunately lost to the terrible 1955 freeze (as were many interesting kinds of trees and shrubs in the arboretum).

Hi Ron. How old would you estimate this tree to be? Do you think it could have been planted in the 1950's or 1960's? When I talked to the previous elderly owner, she told me the tree was "ancient", as were all of the Umbellularia's planted there. What do you think?

-Brian

It could have frozen down and grown back up from the roots, making even taking a core sample of the largest trunk misleading. The size and success of the thing in general is anomalous for this area, plus the site isn't even particularly sheltered-looking. There's alot of young, slender ones around now that are in some instances maybe half as tall as this one, even taller, because we've been having mild winters. These will last until it gets below ~15 degrees F. The Bremerton tree may have seen more than one cycle of its brethren being planted rather widely and then freezing out. Or, it's also possible this variety wasn't planted in numbers here until recently.

Hi Ron. Back to my original question: When do you think this tree was planted? Or more to the point: how old do you think it is? Everything you said above is opinion, it may this, or could have that, so if you have an opinion concerning the age of this tree, I would love to have it regarding my question on this. Thank you.

-Brian

The shoe looks older than the tree.

I think an established eucryphia will survive colder temps than 15°; teen temps merely brown all the leaves off of mine--even twigs re-leaf. This includes a stiff east wind.

Brian, what is the bloom habit of that tree?

Here's my Eucryphia x intermedia that's flowering now. The blooms are lightly fragrant.

Cheers, Barrie.
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