It smells really, really good, and the bees love it. It's around twenty-five feet tall.
The blooms are white tinged with pink and are approximately an inch across.
And here is where I confess that I'm about as good at tree identification as I am at bird ID, which is to say, not at all, so ...
... what is it? Name that tree! Please. Thank you.
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It looks like some kind of fruit tree. Go back in late summer and tell us what's hanging off it.
You know, I don't remember any fruit on it last summer, but I'll sure check.
I believe it is The Tree of Life, a major motion picture from director Terrence Malick, starring Brad Pitt. Coming this summer to a theatre near you ... or it's an Elm. Yeah, definitely an Elm.
Ooooh, I heard that "Tree of Life" was all the talk at Cannes.
And nope, not an elm. :) I've got an elm in the backyard. It's one of the only ones in the neighborhood that wasn't taken out by Dutch Elm Disease.
Care to guess again? Maybe I should start a contest ...
It could be apple or pear. If there isn't another pear around to cross-fertilize it, it may not bear fruit.
(People think apple trees don't get tall, but unpruned they can get tall.)
Apple. Definitely. I and Al think. Maybe.
Well, the consensus seems to be "fruit tree". I'll have to keep an eye on it.
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