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I recently used Cairns city council's exhaustive tree map to match and identify a beautiful weed tree that had popped up in my front yard (to a tree in a nearby
by somishere 4y ago
I recently used Cairns city council's exhaustive tree map to match and identify a beautiful weed tree that had popped up in my front yard (to a tree in a nearby park). Turns out it's actually an edible fruit tree (a damson plum) so we've kept it. Tho it's already quite big and will start taking light from the mango tree soon enough, so decision is akin to an adoption!
By weed tree, I mean planted by a bird.
https://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/community-and-environment/trees/trees-database https://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/community-and-environment/tree...
- lostlogin 4y agoYou can graft onto that tree to get other varieties. It surprisingly simple and very satisfying. If you’re really clever, you may be able to make it grow as a dwarf, or columnar tree. I haven’t done those things and they might require something being done to the roots.
- somishere 4y agoInteresting! Not very clever, but I've got an avocado and mango that seem to be surprisingly happy with a heavy handed biannual trim. Was hoping the plum would fall in line. The fruit are quite nice (albeit tiny!) and I've recently started spotting them on a couple of menus. And yet to try grafting but do have a few citrus around that would be prime candidates!