In the yard next to mine there is a flowering tree that I can't ID. It's 20-25 feet tall, round in form, and has a gray bark. I'm not sure it is a tree at all, maybe a viburnum gone wild.
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I need some help with a tree ID.
May 13, 2004
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It certainly appears, superficially, to be a Viburnum: Leaves opposite, strongly serrate, broadly ovate. Flowers are cymes, broadly hemispherical. It all points to Viburnum. Are the flowers potently fragrant?
Possibilities include Viburnum carlesii Viburnum x carlcephallum Viburnum × bodnantense ('The leaves of all cultivars are similar with deeply impressed veins, red petioles, red stems and slight pubescence on the lower surface. Leaves, when bruised, smell like green peppers.'-- Dirr)
Dave
Looks like a tree hydrangea.
leat a couple viburnums have sort of stinky flowers. Tony
them. At leat a couple viburnums have sort of stinky flowers.
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