madgardener wrote:
Bob Williams wrote:

It was real breezy today so I cut a few twigs from a tree with a ton
of these blooms and shot them inside. Thus, the black background.
They look like little Azaleas but the tree was 15 feet tall. Not a bush.
They also look a little like orchids but obviously they are not.
A local called them pink magnolias.
Any ather ideas?
Bob Williams

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where are you gardening? just to let you know..........Azaleas can grow
to be more than twenty feet tall, looking like bushy, scraggly trees.
They sure LOOK like Azaleas...........the wild one here in Eastern
Tennessee called Flame Azalea gets about 16 to 18 feet
tall............Magnolia's bear chalice like, upright to outwards facing
pink, white (star like), pinkish white, an unusual new yellow one, plum,
deep pink and what people don't realize is a magnolia, the tulip poplar
has yellow with orange flame brush marks at the base of the petals
flowers. What you've taken a picture of sure looks like Azalea, and
even clusters of Rhododendrons (same family as Azalea) have their
blossoms that are trumpet like with long stamen and pistils that look
like this as well. I'd hesitate a good solid confirmation that you've
got a great picture of Azalea.........locals calling it pink magnolia
would be what? Alabaman's? Georgians? Tennesseans? Texans? Californians?
Ohioians? Michiganders? Floridians? where you at Bob?
madgardener up on the ridge, back in Fairy Holler, overlooking English
Mountain in Eastern Tennessee, zone 7, Sunset zone 36

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I live in San Diego, CA.
When I lived in Houston TX., I had a Pink Magnolia (an 8' spindly tree)
that looked like what you described. It looked kinda like a Pink Tulip.
but larger.

Thanks for your quick response........Bob Williams