UPDATE: My tree in the sunlight:
Here's what it looks like from afar:
Here's what the flowers look like close up:
I'll post more tomorrow if we get some sunlight!
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13 comments:
Looks like a dogwood to me, from both the silhouette and the flowers.
It's not dogwood, I'm pretty sure -- I've seen lots of those around here, and their flowers are bigger. Also, the flowers have five petals, and dogwood have four, right?
You're right...so the next likely guess is some type of cherry or apple. They have five-petaled flowers.
The tree form looks a little lopsided, but could it be a Bartlett pear?
Here's a tree key identification thingy:
https://www.arborday.org/trees/whattree/
Anon: It's not a pear -- we have lots of those around here, and their flowers are much smaller. More of them, too!
Athena: I've been thinking apple or crabapple, but the shape of the tree is wrong. Maybe it's shaped that way because the other trees overshadow it, though?
Bardiac: Thank you! I'm going to try that.
Bardiac: The tree identifier fails me! It says it's a dogwood, too, which I am almost certain is not the case.
Hawthorne? I was just looking that up recently and the flowers/stamens look similar.
Hawthorne looks possible
https://shop.arborday.org/washington-hawthorn
If you call the local ag extension, they might be able to help, or the city forester.
Sorry the key wasn't more useful!
I guessed DOGWOOD and then looked at comments and now I am feeling ever so brilliant ... because I am totally not an identifier of trees.
Dogwoods can also be pink. They are BEAUTIFUL trees!
It's not a hawthorn; they have large... thorns. Also their blossoms are smaller and more clustered. (It looks like hawthorn because they're both in the apple family, Rosaceae.)
It is also definitely not a dogwood; they have four petals. The shape is wrong for Bradford pear, which is what I though initially.
I would vote for a flowering crabapple maybe? The trunk looks a little scaly, which is consistent. You mentioned it has small dark reddish fruit, which would also be consistent.
The fruit doesn't look like crabapples, but then I only saw a handful of them on the ground after we moved in, year before last. Last year it didn't fruit at all.
Also, I might not be aware of all varieties of crabapple! The trunk is definitely scaly.
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