a tree dropping leathery five-sectioned lanterns

[eub]

Compoundly pinnate leaves, or pinnatifid compounded upon pinnate, and three quarters of the way from alternate to opposite.

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[beaq.livejournal.com]

Arf! I've *seen* these trees, and I could *almost* say what they are. Argl.

Beautiful pics, especially #1.

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[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

koelreuteria i bet. but dunno which one. i've heard them called japanese lantern tree, or goldenrain tree.

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[eub.livejournal.com]

K. bipinnata "Chinese flame tree", I will guess, from the lantern color. Looks less like K. paniculata "Golden rain tree". Missed the flowers to be sure, though.

All of these Koelreuterias show three-symmetric fruit, and I had it in my head that mine were five-symmetric. Were they really? The pictures I posted don't show directly. But on, say, the top one -- we see three flange-edges, and it must have at least one more hidden behind, touching down to cast that shadow. Hmm.

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[eub.livejournal.com]

(Oh, and thank you for the name.)

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[eub.livejournal.com]

The one we see in these pictures does have five lobes. The other one I picked up has four.

Maybe five and four are both unusually large values of three. Or maybe this is another Koelreuteria or related tree with different fruit symmetry.