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  1. 01-09-2014, 8:02 AM #1
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    First one of the year - tree ID please

    Who can tell me what this tree is by the flowers? I'm thinking either flowering pear or dogwood. I took this picture a few years ago while in Albuquerque in a McDonald's parking lot. It was the most beautiful flowering tree I had ever seen.
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  3. 01-09-2014, 9:29 AM #2
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    Could you show a full view of the tree.
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    Doesn't look like Dogowod from the photos.
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    Looks like crabapple to me. They are pretty.

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  7. 01-09-2014, 9:58 AM #6
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    Im with Steve.. I think its some type of apple. Around here the dogwoods have a creamy yellow flower, larger, less dense.
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    I think it's a pear tree. I googled crabapple blossom (they are pink/red), dogwood tree blossom (they are 4 lobed) and pear tree blossom, and that matched the flower exactly.
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  9. 01-09-2014, 10:17 AM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by Todd Burch View Post
    .. I googled crabapple blossom (they are pink/red),
    not necessarily, I have a white flowering crab in my back yard.
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  10. 01-09-2014, 11:13 AM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Tymchak View Post
    not necessarily, I have a white flowering crab in my back yard.
    ditto, can be many different shades. The pears I've been around have a lot less blooms per branch than a crabapple, and the bark was a lighter color. The blooms looked similar to the crab and regular apple blooms though, so could be.
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  11. 01-09-2014, 11:19 AM #10
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    The upright branching is more suggestive of one of the pears.
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  12. 01-09-2014, 11:55 AM #11
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    Looks very similar to the pear trees we had at the orchard I worked at. They try very hard to grow straight up.
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  13. 01-10-2014, 7:30 AM #12
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    My guess is Bradford Pear. Very popular in commercial landscaping, but it has it's drawbacks. http://www.chapelvalley.com/blog-new...bradford-pears
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    Definitely not a Dogwood.

    Some type of Plum Tree was my gut reaction.

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  15. 01-10-2014, 11:15 AM #14
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    That branching looks just like my neighbor's Bradford pears and a google search of the blossoms looks the same. Did the blossoms "stink"? I hate the smell of Bradford pears when they are in bloom. We have a dogwood and those are not dogwood blossoms or branch structure.
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