Plant and Tree Identification: Beautiful but no name

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Author Content jjulio Johannesburg South Africa November 08, 2009 01:13 PM Post #7253154 Can you kindly identify this plant? Doesn't look like an Asclepias [as suggested by a member] Thanks. Julio. Click the image for an enlarged view. nifty413 North Central, TX (Zone 8a) November 08, 2009 02:05 PM Post #7253306 Perhaps Pachycarpus schinzianus... http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantnop/pachycarpschinz.htm Bignonia Atenas Costa Rica November 08, 2009 02:05 PM Post #7253308 To me in the Apocynaceae Family (=Asclepiadaceae). The flowers remind me the typical flowers of the genus Calotropis. But this genus has two only two species, none of them. Opposite leaves, abundant milky sap?. jjulio Johannesburg South Africa November 08, 2009 02:27 PM Post #7253354 Yes, it looks like it is it [cream cups]! Yes, abundant milky sap when you break a leaf. Very sticky, too. Thanks very much for your kind help. Much appreciated. Julio. Johannesburg. jjulio Johannesburg South Africa November 08, 2009 02:31 PM Post #7253371 Here's another shot from the top. [I added the name just a moment ago] Click the image for an enlarged view. trackinsand mid central, FL (Zone 9a) November 08, 2009 02:59 PM Post #7253425 LOVE that leaf!!!! themoonhowl Prairieville, LA (Zone 9a) November 08, 2009 03:57 PM Post #7253567 Rats, I thought it was a Gomphocarpus physocarpus http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.worldbotan...

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