What type of tree is this?

[teamtree]

Specifically....

 

[Pete M]

Magnolia Grandiflora (me think) - p'raps someone from Mississippi could confirm?

 

[Pete M]

changed me mind - not enough petals.

 

[ClimbinArbor]

dogwood

 

[Pete M]

flowering dogwood

 

[teamtree]

I was thinking is was in the dogwood area but the flowers are not the same.

There is a dogwood right next to it and the leaves are not the same and the bark is smoother than a flowering dogwood.

 

[Pete M]

but a young one has smooth bark. Ends of petals do look different though. How big was/is the tree? This is really bugging me - it's one I've seen before only a couple of months ago, and that was as a place I was heavily cutting back dogwood

Speaking of the petals....now all dogwood look the same. One of my favourite photographers of the past, Ansel Adams, has a picture of dogwood which is similar to the petals you have shown, as are the leaves. See http://www.afterimagegallery.com/adamsportf3dogwood.htm

 

[gink595]

I see your from Indiana, hopefully not around Martinsville right now! To me it looks like a Eastern flowering Dogwood, the flowers are the same and the leaf is also similiar. It is native to Indiana also. I looked it up in my Trees of Indiana Book.

 

[Adkpk]

Kousa dogwood.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/31679/

 

[(WLL)]

Kousa dogwood.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/31679/

i second this

 

[ClimbinArbor]

dont know the species cause i havent looked it up, but that flower screams dogwood

 

[JeffL]

dont know the species cause i havent looked it up, but that flower screams dogwood

Personally the branch/twig arrangement is what screams dogwood to me, but either way, I agree!

I remember first starting out in this line of work just last year and my boss telling me just how much a dogwoods structure lends itself to pruning, I'd have to agree!

 

[Toddppm]

I remember first starting out in this line of work just last year and my boss telling me just how much a dogwoods structure lends itself to pruning, I'd have to agree!

Just curious what makes you think that? I've always thought Dogwoods seem to have an almost perfect structure and need little pruning? Kind of like a White Oak or Poplar.

 

[treeseer]

yes kousa but the leaves are unusually round--cultivar?

 

[Ted-RI]

Is it possible to get pics of the trunk? That would make it really easy to tell the difference between kousa and flowering dogwood. I 'm pretty sure its a Dogwood though.

 

[ClimbinArbor]

im with kousa. theres the almost light green hue to the flowering. and the leaves are just a lil glossy

 

[limbwalker54]

Cornus kousa. That is if we are all talking in our native Latin

 

[ClimbinArbor]

et tu limbwalker?

 

[(WLL)]

its either a prune or a take down. lol:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[KiwiTreeSteve]

cornus florida flowering dogwood............. thats my pick