Bob Williams wrote:


Bob Williams 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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I revisited the tree where I got these blooms and noted that although
there were
many hundreds of flowers on the tree, there were virtually no leave
present.
Not like a typical Azalea Bush which has lots of leaves and flowers at
the same time.
Still Puzzled in San Diego.........Bob Williams


After viewing V_Coerulea'a "Deciduous Azalea" (above) and Googling on
that plant, I'm almost certain that is what these flowers are.
The tree loses its leaves at a certain time of year while the flowers
care still present.
Bob Williams

Here is what the leaf looks like.
It was a LOT greener when I picked it 4 hours earlier.
You could almost watch the leaf turn brown as it sat on the table.
Bob Williams