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Old 08-05-2006, 08:26 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Philippe Gautier
 
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Default Help identify tree in blossom please

K wrote:
Davy writes

We have a small 10ft tree (or tall single-shoot shrub) that currently has
red-green leaves and cerise flowers (luminous red, definitely not pink).
The flowers and leaves are cherry-like but the bark is not shiny.

Still sounds like a flowering cherry. Our dark-red-flowered red-leaved
cherries have dark, rather gnarled, bark


When you look at the flowers, it doesn't look at all like a cherry. More
like from the Scrophulariaceae family (digitalis, pentstemons,
snapdragon, etc) ? Cannot find any flowering tree of this family though...

Philippe