What Tree Is This?

[icyfroth]

close-up of the flowers:

It's a beatiful tree on the corner of our garden here at the block.

The birds go crazy over it, specially the lorikeets. The volume of squawking and screeching squabbling has to be heard to be believed!

I'll be back a bit later.

[purple_haize]

Hard to see the flowers clearly, but it could be a Hymenosporum flavum Native Frangipani............the flowers look similar.

[aps1080]

Icy

Where is here ?

Town, state ?

[aps1080]

It does look like a native grangipangi.

Does it smell nice ?

[lind9650]

Icy, it is an African Tulip tree -(Spathodea)

In Coffs Harbour they are planted on lots of nature strips. It took some getting used to the screeching Lorikiets every evening around 5pm. My daughter just laughed at me. She got so used to the noise, she did not even hear it anymore.

The trees flowers make long seedpods, almost like bananas, the birds open them and eat the seeds, but the white, feathery seed-tails are dropped to the ground. Looks like snow in summer.

Erica

[j*oono]

I thought it might be one of these but this is a Queensland site.  Tipuana or Rosewood tree.

http://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/03030800-0b07-490a-8d04-0605030c0f01/media/Html/Tipuana...

[channys_mum]

Looks like a tipuana joono

[***super_nova***]

 Hope it isTipuana because the Spathodea has been nominated as among 100 of the "World's Worst" invaders. 

But here are some pics of Spathodea

[azureline**]

I think the African Tulip too, it is prolific in Northern NSW and considered a weed in Qld. I think there were plans to change it's classification in NSW as well.

[icyfroth]

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@aps1080 wrote:
Icy

Where is here ?

Town, state ?

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Hi there aps. Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier on this question. Here is Neutral Bay, Sydney, NSW. Obviously the right climate for our tree.

Here's a closer close-up of the flowers.

It has big brown seed pods during the winter, like huge brown peas, with 2-3 big seeds inside about the size of an avocado pit.

The neighbour's gardener said it was tropical and should be cut down. It does make a huge mess when it's in flower, and the seed pods can cause a bit of damage when they drop on cars. But it's not really overhanging anything but their bin area and our own cars are sheltered by the carport roof.

We think someone has tried to poison it. Our gardener discovered a hole drilled into the trunk. It still seems to be thriving though.