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There's a stand of nine or so rather tall, slender, tress near my work that caught my eye, and I'm contemplating modelling...

 

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They have a very distinctive look - tall, slender, and foliage in clumps.

 

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They're obviously planted specially there many years ago, as there are no others in the vicinity...

 

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I rather like the height to width ratio...

 

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They don't quite look like conifers - they have leaves, not needles - but not being horticulturally inclined, I have no idea what they are.

 

Can anyone who knows a little about these things offer any suggestions?

 

Cheers

 

Scott

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54 minutes ago, dhjgreen said:

What time of year are the pictures taken?  We have a book of all British trees, but as it is a park the could be non-native.

Just seen your location :)

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My layout was at an exhibition when someone sidled up and said "your trees are too big", to which my reply was "no they're too small" they were a lot less than they should have been. Turned out he was a professional (!) tree maker - I suppose if the trees are smaller he could sell more of them.

 

Back to the OP, as you comment on the height of the trees (in Perth), I thought you might like a picture of these taller ones.

 

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3 hours ago, 34theletterbetweenB&D said:

Isn't practically every native tree in Australia a eucalyptus? Tall, bunches of blueish green foilage, usually grey bark, stinks like chest ointment, chewed by those animals that look like soft toys.

 

Indeed.  That's why

 

a) These stood out

 

and

 

b) Why I have no idea what they are!

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1 hour ago, Fat Controller said:

They look like Poplars to me.

 

Sorry, they're not poplars - the branches are quite short and perpendicular, and the single central trunk almost cylindrical almost to the top.

 

(I've already modeled poplars on Stockrington - was looking for something different...)

 

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I hate it when the quizmaster never supplies the answer - don't you?

 

Turns out these are Agathis robusta.  Queensland kauri pine.

 

I emailed the local council the park is in and eventually got an answer, along with a very hand live tool to look up almost any tree in the area!

 

http://maps.victoriapark.wa.gov.au/intramaps96/default.htm?project=VictoriaPark

 

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