Can you identify this tree found in northern California?
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These are branches and flowers pulled off of the tree earlier today.
I think it might be a mulbury or hibiscus but can't seem to find the exact species since nither has those 5 stalks inside of the yellow flower and it isn't red anywhere.
The leaves are the wrong size. The leaves are the wrong shape. The flower is the wrong size. The flower is the wrong shape. The flower is the wrong color. The whole plant is the wrong size. The whole plant is the wrong shape.
The yellow flowers look the closest I've seen so far but the leaves are unfortunately all wrong for the gold medallion tree. Drat. :(
I've been googling for hours trying to figure out what kind of tree this is. It's definitely not a bush; it's 30 feet high (that's some bush) but I just can't figure out what it is.
The next closest seems to be the hibiscus but I can't find a single hibiscus flower picture that looks like the one I'm trying to identify.
The best guess so far is "yellow mallow", "hibiscus", and the "Gold Medallion Tree" but none have both the leaves and the flowers shown in any Internet picture that looks similar.
That's why I'm so confused as to what this tree is.
That's why I asked. The closest I can get was hibiscus (I now agree that mulberry is out). I did look up poplar (aka tulip), but nixed it on the basis of the leaves.
I snapped more picture of the whole plant (shrub/bush/tree?), in situ, today as it is near where I live. You can see that it's 25 to 30 feet tall but only about 4 inches thick at the trunk although it has many trunks (almost like a hugely tall bush).
The new pictures (of the whole shrug/tree/bush?) are posted here.
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