Celerywood leaf-shape (forum)

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I have a young Celerywood (Polyscias elegans) that has a different leaf-shape to all other Celerywoods I have seen. The leaflets are usually ellyptical to oval and mine has almost lyrate leaflets. Is this variation common or have I purchased a mislabelled tree? If so, what is it?
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Time: 23rd June 2007 7:17pm

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Robyn says...
could be seed grown, always will get varients of some sort with seed grown as opposed to cutting grown(clones)

Time: 23rd June 2007 10:05pm

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Kath says...
This does not look like a celery wood to me. It could be a Tulip satinwood - Rhodospaera rhodanthema, also called the Deep Yellow-wood, this tree has the beautiful oak shaped foliage in it juvenile form. It is a fantastic pioneer tree and is one of the fastest growing rainforest trees. It is a small to medium sized tree, has valuable timber and is fast and hardy, perfect to establish a rainforset plot around.

Time: 6th July 2007 9:28am

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Dekka says...
Thanks, Kath. I tried to find images of juvenile Rhodospaera leaves but had no luck. 'Though, from the descriptions, it sounds like it's worth keeping in its current location as rainforest pioneer. Tah!

Time: 6th July 2007 4:11pm

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Anonymous says...
Dear Kath,
Just following up,... you were absolutely correct about it being a Rhodospaera. I was just visiting the nursery where I bought it and there were the identical seedlings. Looks like a labelling whoops after all. Thanks. (Shoulda bought Celerywood from Daleys) Dekka

Time: 11th July 2007 5:08pm

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Kath says...
Dekka, the Rhodospaera is a fantastic little tree, it is not too big and always looks gorgeous especially in flower. It has proved itself to be the fastest of all the trees that I have planted on my place. Celerywoods are very hard to germinate so we seldom have them at the nursery, they are however also an excellent fast growing pioneer tree.

Time: 12th July 2007 7:15am

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