Somewhere on teh intarwebs "Sacha" typed:
On 27/12/08 00:36, in article ,
"~misfit~" wrote:

Somewhere on teh intarwebs "Sacha" typed:
On 19/12/08 11:50, in article
, "Sacha"
wrote:

On 19/12/08 01:20, in article
,
"Dave Poole" wrote:

Just had a look at the pics Sacha. While No.2 shows what appears
to be typical Ficus macrophylla trunk and 'butressing', the
foliage and fruits in No.3 are not F. macrophylla. I've had a
ferret about and found this pic of typical fruiting macrophylla
material:
http://plantarium.files.wordpress.co...acrophylla.jpg
You can see that foliage and fruits are significantly different.
I don't know what No.3 is, but I do know it isn't Ficus
macrophylla.


Thanks, David, though the mystery deepens! Perhaps someone from
Australia or NZ will see this.

Many apologies, I've just realised that the fruit pic is NOT the one
Ray took of the Moreton Bay figs! It was a hedge of some sort down
on King Edward Parade in Devonport, right outside the sailing club,
just in case that helps anyone to ID it We took hundreds of photos
of various things and I've muddled those up! The fruits we saw on
the Moreton Bay Fig are exactly as your pic shows them. Now all I
need to find out is what those 'incorrect' fruits really are!

Hi Sacha,

I'm pleased to hear you enjoyed your holiday here. :-)

There used to be a Moreton Bay Fig tree in my parents garden. I
bought the "Rubber Plant" for mum as a mother's day gift and, when
it got too big for growing inside she planted it out. However, about
15 years later it got to be too big for the garden too so had to be
felled.

Rubber plant definitely strikes a chord because we looked at these
and saw a similarity immediately. They are superb trees in Flagstaff
Terrace, Devonport.

I've studied the fruits in the other pic and, sorry, I can't help
you with identifying them. Then again, I certainly don't profess to
be an expert, far from it in fact. ;-)

I wish I could find out what they are, just out of curiosity. Nobody
seems to have any idea. I don't think they can be that rare or
unusual because they were on a hedge by the sailing club, bordering a
road, not tucked away in some exotic botanic garden.

Sacha, I've asked in a NZ group (and linked to your pic) and have been asked
what sailing club they were near as apparently there are several clubs on
Auckland's North Shore and a debate as to what the plant is.

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

On 28/12/08 11:55, in article , "~misfit~"
wrote:

Somewhere on teh intarwebs "Sacha" typed:
snip

I've studied the fruits in the other pic and, sorry, I can't help
you with identifying them. Then again, I certainly don't profess to
be an expert, far from it in fact. ;-)

I wish I could find out what they are, just out of curiosity. Nobody
seems to have any idea. I don't think they can be that rare or
unusual because they were on a hedge by the sailing club, bordering a
road, not tucked away in some exotic botanic garden.

Sacha, I've asked in a NZ group (and linked to your pic) and have been asked
what sailing club they were near as apparently there are several clubs on
Auckland's North Shore and a debate as to what the plant is.

Cheers,

The Devonport Sailing Club. It's on King Edward Parade and outside it has
several boats with their histories and a plaque to Peter Blake (one-time
skipper of Lion) the famous NZ yottie. AFAIR the hedge was right near the
entrance to part of the Club. In fact, we asked one of the members going
out to his car what the hedge was but he couldn't help us. Many thanks for
trying to resolve this one for us.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online)

Somewhere on teh intarwebs "Sacha" typed:
On 28/12/08 11:55, in article ,
"~misfit~" wrote:

Somewhere on teh intarwebs "Sacha" typed:
snip

I've studied the fruits in the other pic and, sorry, I can't help
you with identifying them. Then again, I certainly don't profess to
be an expert, far from it in fact. ;-)

I wish I could find out what they are, just out of curiosity.
Nobody seems to have any idea. I don't think they can be that rare
or unusual because they were on a hedge by the sailing club,
bordering a road, not tucked away in some exotic botanic garden.

Sacha, I've asked in a NZ group (and linked to your pic) and have
been asked what sailing club they were near as apparently there are
several clubs on Auckland's North Shore and a debate as to what the
plant is.

Cheers,

The Devonport Sailing Club. It's on King Edward Parade and outside
it has several boats with their histories and a plaque to Peter Blake
(one-time skipper of Lion) the famous NZ yottie. AFAIR the hedge
was right near the entrance to part of the Club. In fact, we asked
one of the members going out to his car what the hedge was but he
couldn't help us. Many thanks for trying to resolve this one for us.

I've relayed the info to a fairly planty person on Auckland's North Shore.
We shall see.....

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

Somewhere on teh intarwebs "~misfit~" typed:
Somewhere on teh intarwebs "Sacha" typed:
On 28/12/08 11:55, in article ,
"~misfit~" wrote:

Somewhere on teh intarwebs "Sacha" typed:
snip

I've studied the fruits in the other pic and, sorry, I can't help
you with identifying them. Then again, I certainly don't profess
to be an expert, far from it in fact. ;-)

I wish I could find out what they are, just out of curiosity.
Nobody seems to have any idea. I don't think they can be that rare
or unusual because they were on a hedge by the sailing club,
bordering a road, not tucked away in some exotic botanic garden.

Sacha, I've asked in a NZ group (and linked to your pic) and have
been asked what sailing club they were near as apparently there are
several clubs on Auckland's North Shore and a debate as to what the
plant is.

The Devonport Sailing Club. It's on King Edward Parade and outside
it has several boats with their histories and a plaque to Peter Blake
(one-time skipper of Lion) the famous NZ yottie. AFAIR the hedge
was right near the entrance to part of the Club. In fact, we asked
one of the members going out to his car what the hedge was but he
couldn't help us. Many thanks for trying to resolve this one for us.

I've relayed the info to a fairly planty person on Auckland's North
Shore. We shall see.....

Ok, the person who was trying to find out for us visited the North Shore and
couldn't find the plant in question (asked if you meant Devonport *Yacht*
club?) and in the end sent your pic to a local gardening consultant of their
acquiantence. The reply was: "It is Ficus pumila a commonly grown climbing
fig"

I just did a quick Google image search for "ficus pumila fruit" and I didn't
find fruit identical to those in your pic but I found pics of green ones the
same shape:

http://www.toptropicals.com/html/top...d/nursery1.htm
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty...ic_pum_mid.jpg
http://flickr.com/photos/30628871@N00/10438699

Hope that helps Sacha. Happy new year. :-)
--
Shaun.

On 29/12/08 23:01, in article , "~misfit~"
wrote:

Somewhere on teh intarwebs "~misfit~" typed:
Somewhere on teh intarwebs "Sacha" typed:
On 28/12/08 11:55, in article ,
"~misfit~" wrote:

Somewhere on teh intarwebs "Sacha" typed:
snip

I've studied the fruits in the other pic and, sorry, I can't help
you with identifying them. Then again, I certainly don't profess
to be an expert, far from it in fact. ;-)

I wish I could find out what they are, just out of curiosity.
Nobody seems to have any idea. I don't think they can be that rare
or unusual because they were on a hedge by the sailing club,
bordering a road, not tucked away in some exotic botanic garden.

Sacha, I've asked in a NZ group (and linked to your pic) and have
been asked what sailing club they were near as apparently there are
several clubs on Auckland's North Shore and a debate as to what the
plant is.

The Devonport Sailing Club. It's on King Edward Parade and outside
it has several boats with their histories and a plaque to Peter Blake
(one-time skipper of Lion) the famous NZ yottie. AFAIR the hedge
was right near the entrance to part of the Club. In fact, we asked
one of the members going out to his car what the hedge was but he
couldn't help us. Many thanks for trying to resolve this one for us.

I've relayed the info to a fairly planty person on Auckland's North
Shore. We shall see.....

Ok, the person who was trying to find out for us visited the North Shore and
couldn't find the plant in question (asked if you meant Devonport *Yacht*
club?) and in the end sent your pic to a local gardening consultant of their
acquiantence. The reply was: "It is Ficus pumila a commonly grown climbing
fig"

I just did a quick Google image search for "ficus pumila fruit" and I didn't
find fruit identical to those in your pic but I found pics of green ones the
same shape:

http://www.toptropicals.com/html/top...d/nursery1.htm
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty...ic_pum_mid.jpg
http://flickr.com/photos/30628871@N00/10438699

Hope that helps Sacha. Happy new year. :-)


Many thanks, it helps indeed. It must be yacht club, I think but it was the
only one in that vicinity. And the fruit looks very similar though this was
grown as a hedge, not a climbing plant. It's kind of you and your friend to
go to such trouble - please will you thank him or her for me? I'm really
glad to have tracked that down - it's like an uncomfortable itch until one
does!
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online)

On Dec 29, 11:12*pm, Sacha wrote:
The reply was: "It is Ficus pumila a commonly grown climbing
fig"

[snip]

Many thanks, it helps indeed. *It must be yacht club, I think but it was the
only one in that vicinity. *And the fruit looks very similar though this was
grown as a hedge, not a climbing plant.

Ficus pumila and F. radicans have juvenile and adult (arborescent)
forms in much the same way as Ivy and Euonymus japonica. Cuttings
taken of adult growth will remain shrubby with the larger leaves and
could be used as a hedge. We never see the adult phases of these
Ficus in the UK, which is my excuse for not recognising something I've
used as groundcover here!

On 30/12/08 00:05, in article
, "Dave
Poole" wrote:

On Dec 29, 11:12*pm, Sacha wrote:
The reply was: "It is Ficus pumila a commonly grown climbing
fig"

[snip]

Many thanks, it helps indeed. *It must be yacht club, I think but it was the
only one in that vicinity. *And the fruit looks very similar though this was
grown as a hedge, not a climbing plant.

Ficus pumila and F. radicans have juvenile and adult (arborescent)
forms in much the same way as Ivy and Euonymus japonica. Cuttings
taken of adult growth will remain shrubby with the larger leaves and
could be used as a hedge. We never see the adult phases of these
Ficus in the UK, which is my excuse for not recognising something I've
used as groundcover here!

Thanks, Dave. All that explains a lot, I must say. The leaves were faintly
familiar to us but - we realise now - were mildly chlorotic and of course,
the fruit was totally unknown though very attractive. They were fully ripe
so in NZ I imagine it's one of those autumn fruits because we saw it around
11 December and 1 December is the official start of summer there, we were
told.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online)

Somewhere on teh intarwebs "Sacha" typed:
On 29/12/08 23:01, in article ,
"~misfit~" wrote:

Somewhere on teh intarwebs "~misfit~" typed:
Somewhere on teh intarwebs "Sacha" typed:
On 28/12/08 11:55, in article ,
"~misfit~" wrote:

Somewhere on teh intarwebs "Sacha" typed:
snip

I've studied the fruits in the other pic and, sorry, I can't
help you with identifying them. Then again, I certainly don't
profess to be an expert, far from it in fact. ;-)

I wish I could find out what they are, just out of curiosity.
Nobody seems to have any idea. I don't think they can be that
rare or unusual because they were on a hedge by the sailing club,
bordering a road, not tucked away in some exotic botanic garden.

Sacha, I've asked in a NZ group (and linked to your pic) and have
been asked what sailing club they were near as apparently there
are several clubs on Auckland's North Shore and a debate as to
what the plant is.

The Devonport Sailing Club. It's on King Edward Parade and outside
it has several boats with their histories and a plaque to Peter
Blake (one-time skipper of Lion) the famous NZ yottie. AFAIR the
hedge was right near the entrance to part of the Club. In fact,
we asked one of the members going out to his car what the hedge
was but he couldn't help us. Many thanks for trying to resolve
this one for us.

I've relayed the info to a fairly planty person on Auckland's North
Shore. We shall see.....

Ok, the person who was trying to find out for us visited the North
Shore and couldn't find the plant in question (asked if you meant
Devonport *Yacht* club?) and in the end sent your pic to a local
gardening consultant of their acquiantence. The reply was: "It is
Ficus pumila a commonly grown climbing fig"

I just did a quick Google image search for "ficus pumila fruit" and
I didn't find fruit identical to those in your pic but I found pics
of green ones the same shape:

http://www.toptropicals.com/html/top...d/nursery1.htm
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty...ic_pum_mid.jpg
http://flickr.com/photos/30628871@N00/10438699

Hope that helps Sacha. Happy new year. :-)

Many thanks, it helps indeed. It must be yacht club, I think but it
was the only one in that vicinity. And the fruit looks very similar
though this was grown as a hedge, not a climbing plant. It's kind of
you and your friend to go to such trouble - please will you thank him
or her for me? I'm really glad to have tracked that down - it's like
an uncomfortable itch until one does!

You're very welcome, I'm pleased to help. I'll pass on your thanks.

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

On 30/12/08 07:39, in article ,
"Sacha" wrote:

On 30/12/08 00:05, in article
, "Dave
Poole" wrote:

On Dec 29, 11:12*pm, Sacha wrote:
The reply was: "It is Ficus pumila a commonly grown climbing
fig"

[snip]

Many thanks, it helps indeed. *It must be yacht club, I think but it was the
only one in that vicinity. *And the fruit looks very similar though this was
grown as a hedge, not a climbing plant.

Ficus pumila and F. radicans have juvenile and adult (arborescent)
forms in much the same way as Ivy and Euonymus japonica. Cuttings
taken of adult growth will remain shrubby with the larger leaves and
could be used as a hedge. We never see the adult phases of these
Ficus in the UK, which is my excuse for not recognising something I've
used as groundcover here!

Thanks, Dave. All that explains a lot, I must say. The leaves were faintly
familiar to us but - we realise now - were mildly chlorotic and of course,
the fruit was totally unknown though very attractive. They were fully ripe
so in NZ I imagine it's one of those autumn fruits because we saw it around
11 December and 1 December is the official start of summer there, we were
told.


PS: apologies for following up to myself but I forgot to ask if these
fruits are edible. I'm assuming they are?

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online)