Worth moving my mango for? (Maybe an oak?)

[SecondGenMonkey]

This little guy sprouted up a couple months back. At first I thought it must be a holly bush (like real holly, not Brazilian pepper) But I'm thinking it may be an oak.
Doesn't look like the live oak, water oak or whites I'm used to. Wondering if anyone can identify it So I can decide if I should move my mango and key lime trees to a different spot.

The leaves have broadened and lost some of the spikiness they had at first.
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[Raintree]

Hard telling without a pic or two.

 

[SecondGenMonkey]

Derp. Hold on...

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[SecondGenMonkey]

Hard telling without a pic or two.

Fixed it! Forgot to attach.

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[SecondGenMonkey]

Haven't seen any matching leaves in terms surrounding blocks.

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[Raintree]

Since you're talking about mango and key lime trees, my wild guess would be Calabash.

 

[SecondGenMonkey]

Off to google'

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[SecondGenMonkey]

Since you're talking about mango and key lime trees, my wild guess would be Calabash.

Since you're talking about mango and key lime trees, my wild guess would be Calabash.

Calabash search only brings up a gourd vine.

The mango and key lime are both trees I've planted, not volenteer trees. I can move the mango If I know this is going to be a tree worth keeping, its in the only suitable place for a large tree in the yard.

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[Raintree]

The tree produces a useful gourd, run a search on "Calabash tree".

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[beastmaster]

Looks like a macadamia nut tree . http://www.ebay.com/itm/20-Fresh-Se...ee-Plant-/370907543588?_trksid=p2054897.l4276 They lose the spikes and are unadated(sp?)along the outsides of the leaf. Their kind of leathery feeling.

 

[SecondGenMonkey]

Its not calabash, thats for sure.

The leaves are stiff, like oak. They snap instead of folding completely in half.

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[SecondGenMonkey]

Leaves are about 5 inches with very tiny spikes

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[beastmaster]

I've been trying to grow a mango tree for the last 10 years. I keep hoping to find one that can survive the three or four days of really cold weather we get here in Riverside. I start them from seed. I had one for two years but left it out during a rare freeze we had. I use to belong to the "rare fruit growers association", I take it where your from a Mango isn't a rare fruit. Not to far from where I live, in fallbrook they're growing a few experimental groves of mango, a gold one(california oro).
I would pull that thing up and keep the mango, but then you can see I'm partial to Mangos. Oaks are nice but Acorns taste like sh _ _. Anyway I don't think thats an oak. I'd look around for a 100 yards in each direction and see if I could find the tree it came from. Birds don't eat acorns as far as I know so it couldn't of traveled to far from its parent tree if it is an oak. It does look just like the macadamia tree I tried to grow in my front yard. Kind of looks a little like a carrotwood tree too.
I'm curious what it is also. Let us know if you find out . Thanks

 

[Procut]

Looks like a macadamia nut tree . http://www.ebay.com/itm/20-Fresh-Se...ee-Plant-/370907543588?_trksid=p2054897.l4276 They lose the spikes and are unadated(sp?)along the outsides of the leaf. Their kind of leathery feeling.

That was my guess at first glance.

 

[SecondGenMonkey]

Just got back from Fairchild Tropical Park. Its definately macadamia.

I called the landlord and they had a mac removed from that very spot two years ago. Im pretty sure the roots shot up a sucker


Oh, as for mangoes.... I go for trees from cuttings because they tend to fruit faster.

I know the mangoes down here can survive a couple days at 50f or so once they are at the 20gallon pots. One trick ive seen used in colder climes is to wrap pots in a heat blanket (like for your back). Im not a nursery dude, so I cant be much more help. Dunno about what happens when your ground frosts.

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