Can anyone identify this tree? (1 Viewer)

[Will_B]

I think I can. Yes, yes. That's the tree outside your workplace.

Glad to be of help.

 

[mylan]

Thats the best answer yet, we...have...a..winner!!!

 

[Dennis Nicholls]

Eric,

I linked to a thread with dogwood flower photos in post 5 above.

But your flowers are more trumpet shaped. Maybe a deciduous Magnolia?

How about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_liliiflora ?

 

[homevideo45]

Not sure about that.

 

[Radioman970]

QFT



c'ya
James

 

[Eric_L]

That looks real close. I'll have to wait till spring to see the leaves.

 

[TonyD]

can you find out the name of the gardening service and ask them?

 

[Brandon_T]

My parents are up from Punta Gorda visiting and Mom seems to think its an Orchid Tree. She isn't positive, but that is her gut feeling.

 

[Eric_L]

The flowers on the orchid trees I looked up do not have the same cone shape - but they are the same color.

 

[Bryan X]

If you really want to know, just take the picture to your local nursery. They should be able to tell you what it is.

 

[Dave Poehlman]

I'm going to vote for some sort of Hibiscus...

...although I don't know diddly about trees. The flowers remind me of a hibiscus plant I once had... that I killed.

 

[Eden Keeper]

I'm actually here just for the tree ID starting with this one that brought me when I searched for tree ID forums. Although I've never actually seen one it is probably a black poui, Jacaranda mimosifolia D. Don, which is the most common cultivated species in the genus. The foxglove like flower shape (and lack of a terminal bud because the end of the twig dies each year thus resulting in the tree forking) got me close since princess tree, Paulownia tomentosa (Thunb.) Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud., is similar. From there I searched for just trees at increasingly higher classification levels (getting up to order) until I found it at; http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=JAMI, where it is shown to be introduced (from South America according to Wikipedia) and thus present near where indicated.