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Title: ID for tree?
Post by: antipodes on April 15, 2013, 10:43:53

There is a very beautiful tree in our park and I have often wondered what it was. Any ideas? I took a pic of it in bloom (the figure underneath is my daughter who didn't want her face in the picture!!!)

(http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q319/antipodes_photo/caulis_april1_zps85fc805f.jpg)

Title: Re: ID for tree?
Post by: Borlotti on April 15, 2013, 11:10:41

I'm confused, think u posted the wrong photo. Cauliflower tree, ha ha.

Title: Re: ID for tree?
Post by: goodlife on April 15, 2013, 13:29:33

 :icon_cheers:

Title: Re: ID for tree?
Post by: Pescador on April 15, 2013, 17:08:48

That's not a tree. That's a Korly flower!

Title: Re: ID for tree?
Post by: star on April 15, 2013, 21:10:30

Fink you posted in the wrong forum :glasses9:........the 'Our pets' is near 'the shed'.........Lovely Collie :toothy10: :toothy10: :toothy10:

Title: Re: ID for tree?
Post by: antipodes on April 16, 2013, 09:10:19

WAA HAAA! Yes, absolutely. Nice to have given you all a laugh. let's see if this is teh right link:
(http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q319/antipodes_photo/treeinpark_zps9f80d5db.jpg)

Title: Re: ID for tree?
Post by: antipodes on April 19, 2013, 13:10:36

No one has any clues about my tree?

Title: Re: ID for tree?
Post by: goodlife on April 19, 2013, 14:20:50

Umm...it is taken from the distance and you cannot really see any details, but my guess is that is some sort of flowering cherry, plum, almond or peach  =Prunus family

Title: Re: ID for tree?
Post by: small on April 19, 2013, 18:01:25

Is it possibly a Buddleia Alternifolia? I know you can grow them as a standard, used to pass a beauty in Hemel Hempsted....may be a  bit early for that, though....

Title: Re: ID for tree?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on April 19, 2013, 19:08:27

Flowering cherry? Can't really tell without a closeup as well as the distance pic.

Title: Re: ID for tree?
Post by: ACE on April 21, 2013, 07:05:52

Is the colour in the pic true, because it is like Cheals Weeping but in a weaker colour.

Title: Re: ID for tree?
Post by: marlin vs on April 21, 2013, 10:30:29

Looks like a flowering cherry.

Title: Re: ID for tree?
Post by: antipodes on April 22, 2013, 13:24:38

Funny, as I don't recall ever seeing any fruit on it come autumn, butthere are other (wild) cherry types in the same park. I think it may have also been very well pruned to give the excellent shape it has. Ace might have put his finger on it...
I will see if I can't get a photo of any remaining flowers.

Title: Re: ID for tree?
Post by: John85 on April 25, 2013, 21:36:16

Definitively not a buddleia alternifolia.
Can you remember the shape of the leaves?
Have a look under the tree .May be there are some left from last year that are not too rotten.

Title: Re: ID for tree?
Post by: davyw1 on April 25, 2013, 22:42:41

Its a Cherry Blossom Tree i recon

Title: Re: ID for tree?
Post by: Digeroo on April 26, 2013, 03:52:12

Can you give us the date the photo was taken?   I am not sure you get fruit on the ornamental cherries.   I have a winter flowering one and it never produces any seed.   

Title: Re: ID for tree?
Post by: ACE on April 27, 2013, 07:46:57

You do not get fruit you can eat on an ornamental cherry tree. The fruiting varieties have been hybridised over the years to get the types of cherries you eat. The same with the different ornamentals to get different colour blooms. Also with grafting you can get the weeping types and as I said earlier this tree is Cheals Weeping Cherry. Here is a pic from the internet of another which should settle the speculation.

(http://www.dinsan.com.au/media/88604/weeping_cherry_450x300.jpg)

Now the burning question is where can I get one.