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Lv 5
? asked in Home & GardenGarden & Landscape · 7 years ago

Please identify this tree - (With pictures)?

This tree is in cape coral florida. It has seeds a little larger than golf ball sized. Here are some pictures. Am wondering what this is.

The Tree

: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2pqmlis&s=8#.Uxd5Q...

The Seed

: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=210ee05&s=8#.Uxd6E...

Also, a lot of the seeds had a hole from some kind of bug eating them.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=foohkx&s=8#.Uxd6Cv...

Update:

Here are some more pictures for you to examine.

The Bark. (Its really hard, not paper like)

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=nywr9w&s=8#.UxeJcv...

Heres some more pictures of the twigs and the leaves

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=29prg4h&s=8#.UxeKQ...

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=sphy5x&s=8#.UxeKyf...

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2mdi36a&s=8#.UxeLL...

I cut open a seed, and it appears to be some kind of melon like fruit.

Here is the inside of the golf ball sized things

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=155i7nb&s=8#.UxeLp...

Thank you.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago
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    It's a Florida native tree called a Mahogany, botanical name is Swietenia mahogany.

    https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm...

    Source(s): Florida landscape architect.
  • 7 years ago

    Could you break a small twig from the tree with leaves on it and snap a picture of it? It makes it a lot easier to identify with some of the features of the leaves, like the kind of leaf it is, the way the leaf grows, patterns of the leaves, shapes,etc. A close picture of the tree bark too could help me identify it.

    Yep that looks like a Mahogany tree, specifically Swietenia mahagoni. You got a endangered tree there. The seed don't look developed yet, but the leaves do suggest a Mahogany tree.

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