Safe tree help!

[tab_xo]

Hiyaaaa

I am building Fargo another play gym... Yes.. another haha

But i hate the eucalyptus trees and stuff around here, because they are all just straight branches !

So i went for a walk with mum and asked her what all the different trees were, and i found some cool ones with awesome branches!

I looked on this site:
Bird; Birds: Safe, Toxic Trees, Woods. Safe Tree Wood. Parrots. Parrot cages.

Which is one of the main ones i see people use!

One of the trees are crape myrtle, which said they are safe for birds?

Then the others i cant find!

Now these are all hugeeeeeee trees, cause we live in the middle of no where, there are thousands of trees, mostly eucalyptus and boring ones like that, but there were people who lived here hundreds of years ago, so i assume they planted these, cause they are near where their old house used to be ?


Duranta ( more interested in the flowers and leaves for foraging )
Ficus
Bohemia

Are they safe??


There is also a wild rose tree ? Are the flowers safe for Fargo ?


And then there are these, but mum has no idea what they are..

Do you guys know?

Theres this one:




Has these big lumps on it?








and this one:






and the horse likes to eat it? hahaha


Thanks guys!

 

[weco]

Yep, Vaden knows his trees...I think he just retired either last year or maybe a couple of years ago, but I don't have a green thumb, so not a lot of good looking a many trees & being able to tell you what they are.....now, with the exception of a couple of little ones you took a pic of, who' going to do all this lumber jacking for you.....heck, you'd have to get a whole crew of Mick Dundee's friend Dink, for all that work..... Do your parents know anyone who might grow grapes...the vines are often curly, or you could check with any of your Australian coffee farms/plantations for Java wood.....they're just old coffee trees & they're all curly..... Best I can offer.....

 

[tab_xo]

Ahhh ok!

HAHA i do all the cutting and sawing, i climb up trees and chop down good branches! It takes dad like 3 saws to cut through something, and takes me about 20 haha but at least i do it!


Well i have tried to email sooo many coffee tree growers in Australia and even the big coffee grower association, and not one of them got back to me :S

Not sure about grapes, i would love to get a hold of some though, i can only find one place in Australia who supplies it, and its about 80 dollars for a meter long piece :S Which is insane!

and then a parrot shop sells them as perches, but its 45 dollars for a piece about 40cm long!

My mum works at this organic company, who certifies the organic products, and she has organic grape grower clients, i could ask her if they have any old branches they could send me hahaha

 

[JerseyWendy]

Oh I am no good at identifying the trees, Tab, I'm sorry.

Ficus is listed as toxic, and I can't find out a thing about the Bohemia tree/flowers and/or the Duranta wood.

The Wild Rose Tree, is that a TRUE rose? Does it have thorns? Rose wood is generally SAFE!!!

 

[JerseyWendy]

I "think" Duranta is toxic, well, the berries are poisonous.....

Duranta is also called "Golden Dewdrops"????

Talking Green Parrot - Plants Which are Harmful to Birds

 

[tab_xo]

Grrrr i really wanted to use the lumpy trees branches, they are really good

Might just have to stick with the other stuff!

Thats weird there is nothing about Durantas or bohemias ! :20:

I am not sure about the rose, mum just said it was a wild rose, it gets pink roses on it Will get a picture tomorrow.. We buried Solomon next to it


Oh, what about mulberry branches? I read somewhere that someones bird had an affect to the leaves.. but the branch wood is fine?

 

[tab_xo]

I "think" Duranta is toxic, well, the berries are poisonous.....

Duranta is also called "Golden Dewdrops"????

Talking Green Parrot - Plants Which are Harmful to Birds

Ahhhhh ok, yes ours have little berries on them :31: So the wood is still a no go?

 

[JerseyWendy]

Mulberry is safe, and I would "think" that the wood of the Duranta could possibly be safe.

 

[tab_xo]

Okkkkk! Thank you!



How am i meant to find out what that lumpy tree is :S

Surely there arent that many trees what have lumps in them and they have the flower pod things!


You know i saw today on a bird facebook group someone asking if Lantana was safe.... and then all you americans were saying how pretty it is HAHAHA
and lantana is one of the biggest, worst weeds in Australia, everyone absolutely hates it, and its poisonous to horses !

 

[JerseyWendy]

Lantana IS pretty, as long as it's in a pot. :09:

As for the lumpy tree, I'll try and do some digging later on today for ya.

 

[tab_xo]

Thank you!!

If it helps, the leaves are thickish and smoothe and glossy.. They are alot thicker than most of the other tree leaves !

and you can see in the 4th picture, the leaves are on this darker branchy bit, which isnt bark like the main branches :S Kind of exotic!

 

[JerseyWendy]

Ok I found a pretty awesome site.

Could it be a Red Bloodwood Tree Eucalyptus gummifera [Corymbia gummifera]?????

Native Tree Images Australia, Rainforest Tree Pictures NSW, QLD, VIC

Maybe the tree with all the knobby things isn't healthy, and that's why it looks so funky??? Either way, the site should be able to help you ID them, especially because it shows the bark, the leaves, and the flowers and/or fruit.

 

[Betrisher]

I don't think it's a bloodwood: the bark's wrong. Tab, I've looked through every tree book I own (and I own quite a few) and can't find answers for you! The only thing I can suggest is that you email the Forestry Commission in your State and ask them. They'll usually do IDs for free.

Do you have any idea whether these trees are native to your area or might they have been planted as part of a garden or old arboretum? Also, what's your area like? Would you call it 'rainforesty' or just 'dry eucalypt forest'? That can narrow the search down considerably, as trees are very specific about where they're willing to grow. There's something about the flower on the first (knobbly) one that makes me think it's an exotic. It *looks* like a Myrtaceae (gum family), but the way the flowers are arranged on the stem seems not right... Hmmm...

The lumps on the bark could either be part of the tree's normal growth habit, or they could be caused by gall wasps, which lay their eggs under the bark. You wouldn't want Fargo to chomp up a wasp gall, as they can be toxic to a bird! I've never heard of Duranta or Bohemia, but I wonder whether 'Bohemia' could have been a mishearing of 'Bauhinia'? I don't think Bauhinia's OK for birds either.

Oh, and one last thought. If you can't get any joy from the Forestry people, you could try your local uni. See if they have a botany department or, at least, a life sciences department and ask for their native plant specialist. If you find out what these trees are, *please* let me know! I hate not knowing! LOL!

 

[JerseyWendy]

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Do you have any idea whether these trees are native to your area or might they have been planted as part of a garden or old arboretum? Also, what's your area like? Would you call it 'rainforesty' or just 'dry eucalypt forest'? That can narrow the search down considerably, as trees are very specific about where they're willing to grow. There's something about the flower on the first (knobbly) one that makes me think it's an exotic. It *looks* like a Myrtaceae (gum family), but the way the flowers are arranged on the stem seems not right... Hmmm...

Now I have this strange feeling someone by the name of "Friedrich" planted some of those trees....he "WAS" from Germany. Tab can tell you ALL about him.

 

[tab_xo]

HAHAHAHAHAHAH ah man this is ridiculous!
Thank you guys so much!


Wendy i went through that site last night and couldnt find it

Trish i am 99% sure its not native to Australia..


Everywhere around us is just dry eucalyptus trees, and the occasional other natives..

But these trees are all near where these german people used to live in the 1800's- or before that

This lumpy tree is the only one of its type anywhere on the property, so i assume it had to be planted ?


It looks alot more exotic than all the other trees, especially with its really thick type leaf!


Hmmmm, i dont think it would be wasps, i never even see any wasps around here :O and it seems too patterned and consistent...
I might go down and cut one of them little lumps and see what happens

I will email the forrestry commission !


Hey maybe i have found this incredibly rare species, could be worth a fortune HAHA

 

[tab_xo]

Here are some more pictures..

See, all big boring trees


and in the middle of all that is the tree


On the trunk, is all these stalk type things which are growing :/ Which is the same tree cause has the same leaves


It kinda hangs down


Hard to explain, but the branches are hard right, and then the big thick pieces have more of a viny type thing, not like a stick, which then has the leaves, and the leaves are at the end of it ?



One of the smaller branch pieces, not the viny type one, has a soft bark that just peels off


and its hollow



But the viney type parts are stretchy and bendy, not hollow

 

[Kalidasa]

Hey tab I believe there's an app you can get on your phone where you take a pic of the leaf and it identifies the tree. I'd be very interested to know what that lumpy wood is, I love it!