On Sep 5, 7:27�am, monique wrote:

Where do you live?

�On Sep 5, 7:27 am, monique wrote:

Where do you live?

I live in an area of central California which is technically a desert
(less than 10 inches of rain per year) and the tree is growing in
sandy river bottom soil.

But it could be a landscaping tree from anywhere in the world rather
than a native.

After four years, it is ten feet tall and the trunk is about 2.5
inches in diameter at the base. It is mostly growing upwards, and a
few lower branches are about 2 feet from the ground and spreading out
about 3 feet in four directions at 90 degrees to each other

Except for the pale leaves, sounds as if it could be
Ligustrum, which is terribly weedy.

Tahnks for the suggestion. None of the pictures of Ligustrum on
Wikipedia resemble this tree.