Tree ID

Just returned from vacation In Trinidad and saw this strange tree EVERY WHERE. I was told it was Ashochoca but I have searchecd on that with no luck at all. I hope one of my pictures turns out well, but basically it looks a bit like Christmas tree but all the branches hang down looking like a plant that has'nt had a drink of water for months...any ideas?

Maybe Island Pine, Araucaria.

Araucaria heterophylla? Commonly sold around Christmas.

If you do a "General" search in Plantfiles, there are nine araucarias. lol, take your choice!

At the top of this page, click guides and information,

then click the green 'search here for plants'

then (find in the writing), click the green generalized search

then fill in the name, aruicaria

If you do this little routine several times, it becomes easy.

Ashochoca must be a local island name. Every island has its' own name for each plant and fish! If the tree is is very wispy and drooping, you can see light coming through it easily, it might be a casurina, an Australian Pine that can be very invasive. It;s a terrible weed in Florida, choking out native trees. Has tiny seed pods about a half an inch long that are a bit spiny and could make cute earrings.

Oh, this tree gets tall, fifty feet or more, withstands hurricanes, and doesn't pose a problem here in the Virgins. There are several specimens on island.

Hope this helps.

Molamola, did not get on well with the search. Have tried to resize the pics, will try again but soon have to go to bed, work tomorrow!

Close up of leaves

this looks like a little tree i have in my yard, grown by a lady here who took a cutting from a tree in indonesia--she said they're growing all around the temples there. didn't know the name, either, but it's nothing like any araucaria or casuarina i've seen. the branches are stiff, angled down, and the foliage is similar to weeping willow, but stiffer. nice to see a picture of it full grown!

Not like any Araucaria that I have viewed either and definitly not the one I suggested.

That ain't no Conifer!

Any flowers or fruit to show?

Oh, my goodness, there were lots of those in southern Thailand! They grow tall, and the limbs don't get long, they droop right out of the trunk.

And I don't know the name! ha!

They look like Indian Mast Trees, Polyalthia longifolia.

When we were in Antigua we saw a tree answering this description, and didn't know what it was called. It looked like one of those artificial 'trees' used to disguise phone masts, so we named it 'Vodofonia Nosignalia'.