Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Mystery tree

There is a tree on the park land next to my house that blooms every spring.




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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7 comments:

  1. ~~SilkWed May 25, 01:17:00 PM EDT

    It looks like some kind of fruit tree. Go back in late summer and tell us what's hanging off it.

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  2. rockygraceWed May 25, 01:24:00 PM EDT

    You know, I don't remember any fruit on it last summer, but I'll sure check.

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  3. RobWed May 25, 06:48:00 PM EDT

    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.

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  4. rockygraceThu May 26, 08:22:00 AM EDT

    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 ...

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  5. ~~SilkThu May 26, 07:21:00 PM EDT

    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.)

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  6. Fish FoodFri May 27, 05:54:00 PM EDT

    Apple. Definitely. I and Al think. Maybe.

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  7. rockygraceTue May 31, 08:15:00 AM EDT

    Well, the consensus seems to be "fruit tree". I'll have to keep an eye on it.

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