What kind of tree is this?

[pahoated]

Albizia saman (sometimes treated under the obsolete name Samanea saman) is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to the Neotropics. Its range extends from Mexico south to Peru and Brazil, but it has been widely introduced to South and Southeast Asia, as well as the Pacific Islands, including Hawaii. Common names include saman, rain tree and monkeypod

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[Susan]

http://dguides.com/oahu/attractions/park...a-gardens/

I adore the monkey pods. No way I would cut one down.

It's one of the things I love about Oahu and Kapiolani Park.

[bluesboy]

post a clear, unblurry closeup of a branch or leaves. that would be the best way to identify it.

[Carey]

Dayna, the umbrella tree is the schefflera tree, as your post indicates, it also is called the octopus tree (from the flower---looks like octopus tentacles ...

Here is a link to the Starr photo gallery on Monkeypod...your initial post picture does kinda look like monkeypod... but so do many of the mimosa/albezia/samanea trees....so I wouldn't hazard a guess...Link to pictures:
http://www.starrenvironmental.com/images...anea+saman&o=plants

If you have a leaflet (or leaf) you may want to just take it to the Ag station on Komohana - Just above & S (before) Imiloa & above the UHH campus... they have master gardeners that will get a positive ID

[bananahead]

Shefflera and Trumpet tree ID (very very easy)

Trumpet trees leaves have a rough texture like sandpaper, and are dull gray green on top and light color on bottom
they grow like weeds in open disturbed areas like Orchidland and much of Puna (HPP, etc.) (clisters of long white worm like flowers)

Schefflera trees have smooth shinny lighter green leaves, green on both sides, and are usually a coastal plant and is often growing on other trees and send roots down to the ground (something a Trumpet tree NEVER does) (red multi stem flowers like an octopus, like pic above)

Note: on top of that we have different types of both, one Schefflera has the very small dark green leaves and is usually a house plant on mainland, but a tree here... and there is another type of Trumpet tree that is rarely seen here (and not even listed in Wagners books) the Cecropia peltata.. I have 2 of them that I got down along the red road south of Pohoiki Bay but inland and well above sealevel (leaves are only 1/2 divided)


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[bananahead]

Trumpet Tree and Schefflera ID (very very easy)

Trumpet trees have rough gray-green leaves (rough like sandpaper) and the bottom of leaf is light colored... the NEVER grow on other trees and the flowers are long clusters of white worm like flowers... very very common in Ochidland and much of Puna in disturbed areas.

Schefflera is usually a coastal plant and will often grow on other trees and send roots down to ground, it has light green SHINNY leaves green on both sides, and the flowers are bright red octopus looking with little berry like fruit along the arms.... (not common in Orchidland unless someone planted it there)


Note: on top of that there are 2 types of ea.... a smaller Schefflera that is known as a house plant on mainland but will get tree size here, the leaves are much smaller and darker green than the common coastal Schefflera

and there is also a rarer type of Trumpet tree that I have only seen in one spot along red road south of Pohoiki Bay deep in the jungle (but well above sea level)... it is Cesropia peltata and has leaves that are only divided 1/2 way down unlike the common Trumpet Tree (Cesropia obtusifolia), and is not even listed as growing wild in the Manual of Flowering Plants of Hawai'i (Wagner)



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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha

[Pilgrim]

There's an easy way to tell a monkeypod- at night the leaves "go to sleep" and fold up.