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Old 02-05-2006, 11:15 PM posted to sci.bio.botany
monique
 
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Default ID this flowering tree, Santa Fe NM

Gnarlodious wrote:
http://home.earthlink.net/~w6zno/MysteryTree1.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~w6zno/MysteryTree2.jpg

-- Gnarlie



This looks like a double-flowered flowering cherry. Compare with photos at:
http://www.uinet.or.jp/~kanao-y/phot...4221642-e.html and
http://www.city.narita.chiba.jp/engl...oto/3/3_5.html

There are probably multiple cultivars with pink flowers like this, but I
know that 'Kwanzan" is one popular one. There are also types with white
flowers.

Monique Reed
Texas A&M