Help Needed Identifying Tree

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  1. Kate Ellery

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    We do all our own gardening including pruning trees .

    I planted this “ pine tree” about 11 years ago …..but it worries us it’s getting way to large fir our front garden
    and have spoken about chopping it down before it gets to put of hand ….When I bought it as a tiny twig I was told it was a Jade low growing conifer …well it’s most certainly not a low growing plant :eek: And we want to chop down if it gets much larger while we can still manage to do so

    Don’t know what I did here …. ] To move text into centre touched smiles must have touched align right ….as well it won’t go back left……. if that’s what I did :(

    anyway here is a photo any one know how much bigger this we’ll grow before we get the chainsaw out and into action
     
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    It’s about 9 - 10 foot tall and prob 12 ft wide

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    Kate, is that picture on your iPhone? If so, open the photo and swipe up from the bottom of the screen. You should see "Look up plant" as an option. Maybe that will work.
     
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    I took it with my iPad, photos I take with the iPad automatically appear on the phone as well

    Thanks @Beth Gallagher I will try that and let you know if it worked to me .
     
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    I didn’t have much luck cause any that come up refer to needle like leaves / fronds my tree is not pickles it has quite soft foliage .
    Came up with European larch as a suggestion @Beth Gallagher
    however mine is nothing like they describe ….I’ve tried looking up Jade conifer but didn’t find much
     
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    Could you post a photo with a close-up of a branch/needles? I don't think it's a pine, but I'm unfamiliar with Australian trees. It looks a bit like spruce, but I don't know that that's what it is.

    Unless that's more than one tree growing close together, that looks like an awfully wide tree.
     
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    Here @Ken Anderson no it only has one main centre stem with lots of branches coming off the main stem …..the tree is not pointy on the very top it’s sorta flat with branches criss crossing

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    @Kate Ellery

    It is a cypress or a member of the cypress family.

    I am going out on a limb here and saying it is an Australian cypress. possibly a false cypress.
     
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    My plant identifier app lists it as some kind of a cypress also. Each photo was described as a different species of cypress, and none of them said they were from Australia; but when i looked at the height, they all get well over 100 feet tall, according to the app.
    However, yours looks more like a tree that is going to get wide and spread, rather than ending up looking like a tall tree, so I am not convinced that it will actually grow as large as the app said.
     
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    The nearest match I can make is the Chamaecyparis or false cypress that grows native in Japan and there is debate whether it is native to Australia. Australia has 13 native species of cypress and they all differ.

    Here I compare Kates tree on the left to a false cypress photo
    of the Chamaecyparis that is found in Japan, USA, and Australia.
    We have a similar native tree here in Eastern Oregon known as Juniper.
    It is a member of the cypress family and grows in very dry places.

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    I'd say either a cypress or a cedar. I'm not overly familiar with cypress but cedars can grow wide like that. It does look a lot like a cypress, though, from pictures that I can find.
     
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    Most cedars are of the cypress family. Here in Oregon we have Lawton Cypress that is known as Port Orford cedar. We also have junipers much like those in Texas that some call cedars but aren't.

    One interesting exception is the Texas saltcedar which isn't a cedar, a cypress, or a juniper but sure has the look. I bet you have seen them along the Rio Grande @Ken Anderson Here is an interesting article that might bring back Texas memories.

    https://perennialecology.wordpress.com/2019/08/03/a-guide-to-distinguishing-texas-cedar-trees-juniperus-species/#:~:text=These species are invasive and occur in riparian,wispy pink or white flowers appear during reproduction.
     
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