In the yard next to mine there is a flowering tree
that I can't ID. It's 20-25 feet tall, round in form, and has a gray bark.
I'm not sure it is a tree at all, maybe a viburnum gone wild.

Here is a link for some photos.

http://www.picturetrail.com/spyder8

It certainly appears, superficially, to be a Viburnum: Leaves opposite,
strongly serrate, broadly ovate. Flowers are cymes, broadly hemispherical.
It all points to Viburnum. Are the flowers potently fragrant?

Possibilities include Viburnum carlesii
Viburnum x carlcephallum
Viburnum × bodnantense ('The leaves of all cultivars are similar with deeply
impressed veins, red petioles, red stems and slight pubescence on the lower
surface. Leaves, when bruised, smell like green peppers.'-- Dirr)

Dave



"spider" wrote in message
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In the yard next to mine there is a flowering tree
that I can't ID. It's 20-25 feet tall, round in form, and has a gray bark.
I'm not sure it is a tree at all, maybe a viburnum gone wild.

Here is a link for some photos.

http://www.picturetrail.com/spyder8

Looks like a tree hydrangea.

--
Mike LaMana, MS
Heartwood Consulting Services, LLC
Toms River, NJ
www.HeartwoodConsulting.net



"spider" wrote in message
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In the yard next to mine there is a flowering tree
that I can't ID. It's 20-25 feet tall, round in form, and has a gray bark.
I'm not sure it is a tree at all, maybe a viburnum gone wild.

Here is a link for some photos.

http://www.picturetrail.com/spyder8

"Mike LaMana" fake@MikeatHeartwoodConsultingdotnet wrote in message ...
Looks like a tree hydrangea.

--
Mike LaMana, MS
Heartwood Consulting Services, LLC
Toms River, NJ
www.HeartwoodConsulting.net



"spider" wrote in message
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In the yard next to mine there is a flowering tree
that I can't ID. It's 20-25 feet tall, round in form, and has a gray bark.
I'm not sure it is a tree at all, maybe a viburnum gone wild.

Here is a link for some photos.

http://www.picturetrail.com/spyder8

If you have not cone so already and there are still flowers, smell them. At leat a couple viburnums have sort of stinky flowers.
Tony

Xref: kermit rec.gardens:278633

The flowers don't smell bad but the leaf has a very strong sharp smell too
it.
"Tony Z" wrote in message
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"Mike LaMana" fake@MikeatHeartwoodConsultingdotnet wrote in message
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Looks like a tree hydrangea.

--
Mike LaMana, MS
Heartwood Consulting Services, LLC
Toms River, NJ
www.HeartwoodConsulting.net



"spider" wrote in message
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In the yard next to mine there is a flowering tree
that I can't ID. It's 20-25 feet tall, round in form, and has a gray
bark.
I'm not sure it is a tree at all, maybe a viburnum gone wild.

Here is a link for some photos.

http://www.picturetrail.com/spyder8

If you have not cone so already and there are still flowers, smell
them. At leat a couple viburnums have sort of stinky flowers.
Tony