Tree Identities for Nile Valley Sunbird Habitat (1 Viewer)

[GeorginaEgypt]

I have been asked by Nature Conservation Egypt to prepare a study of the Nile Valley Sunbirds breeding here in El Gouna on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt.

I would like to include the names of the trees in the study, but asking friends, Google searches, and PlantSnap app has just left me completely confused.

Any help on identifying the correct names of the following would be so appreciated:

Tree 1.

These look like tiny cauliflowers!



The tree above from a distance:



Tree 2.



Tree 3.



Tree 4.
Yellow Hibiscus?



Sunny greetings from Egypt.

 

[Simon Wates]

3: Lantana camara
4. Tecoma stans

Both are not native and are used in gardening around the world in areas with warmer climates.

It would be interesting to know what natural habitat/s they use, or at least originally used.

 

[GeorginaEgypt]

Thank you Simon.

 

[Nutcracker]

3: Lantana camara

Actually a garden hybrid Lantana - true Lantana camara is rare, and not widely cultivated.
See https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=463177 and https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=310628

 

[Simon Wates]

Actually a garden hybrid Lantana - true Lantana camara is rare, and not widely cultivated.
See https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=463177 and https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=310628

Yes Nutty, Lantana camara "used in an aggregate sense for a complex of horticultural/weedy hybrids and closely related species" - but I didn't want to complicate the issue of simple ID or the fact that many garden cultivars are hybrids with Lantana montevidensis.

Would calling the OPs plant, Lantana camara var./hyb. be in keeping for you?

 

[dantheman]

Does it (and the others) have an 'English name'?

 

[Simon Wates]

Does it (and the others) have an 'English name'?

L.camara - one name is simply Common lantana

T.stans - misleading common name; Yellow elder

Both are so abundant down here around the Med - hard to find a garden without them :-O

 

[Nutcracker]

T.stans - misleading common name; Yellow elder

I call it Stan's Tecoma - though who Stan was, I've no idea :t: 3

Both are so abundant down here around the Med - hard to find a garden without them :-O

Makes you wonder why Nile Valley Sunbird doesn't colonise the region?

 

[Nutcracker]

Yellow Trumpetbush seems to be the most widely accepted English name for Tecoma stans :t:

 

[Simon Wates]

Makes you wonder why Nile Valley Sunbird doesn't colonise the region?

Being more serious, surely there will be other environmental factors limiting them. Seems they need lots of nectar in vegetated areas on desert edge.

 

[Simon Wates]

Yellow Trumpetbush seems to be the most widely accepted English name for Tecoma stans :t:

That's much better than Yellow Elder, which is widely used.

 

[GeorginaEgypt]

Regarding tree no. 1, I have received a reply from landscaping: Inja and dalsus.

Non the wiser��

Can't find much apart from this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inga

 

[Nutcracker]

Being more serious, surely there will be other environmental factors limiting them. Seems they need lots of nectar in vegetated areas on desert edge.

Must be plenty of suitable habitat in the Jordan Valley, and up the Med coast from there round to southern Turkey at least. Two limiting factors I can think of (1; most likely) the desert between the Nile and the Jordan is too wide for them to cross, and (2; possible additional factor) the popularity of cats in the area (I've seen so many photos with verging on herds of cats in gardens in the eastern Med!).

 

[GeorginaEgypt]

Tree no. 1 Pithecellobium Dulce
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pithecellobium_dulce

Synonyms: Inga Dulsis

 

[GeorginaEgypt]

Tree no. 2: CASUARINA GLAUCA ?

 

[Nutcracker]

Tree no. 1 Pithecellobium dulce
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pithecellobium_dulce

Yes, that fits well - same 4-leaflet leaves (a very unusual structure!) :t:

Tree no. 2: CASUARINA GLAUCA ?

Don't know what it is, but definitely not a Casuarina, not even remotely like it!
c.f.: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casuarina_glauca_IMG_20170302_110429_(32353217854).jpg

 

[GeorginaEgypt]

Yes, that fits well - same 4-leaflet leaves (a very unusual structure!) :t:



Don't know what it is, but definitely not a Casuarina, not even remotely like it!
c.f.: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casuarina_glauca_IMG_20170302_110429_(32353217854).jpg

Thank you and everyone for your replies. I will investigate tree no. 2 some more today.

 

[GeorginaEgypt]

I now believe
Tree no. 2: Tamarix aphylla

And I was confused as the CASUARINA GLAUCA is the tree next door the Nile Valley Sunbirds were spotted in.