Tree blooming with clusters of pink flowers ???

16 years ago

I pass a yard on my way to town that has three trees blooming with clusters of pink flowers hanging down. I think they've been in bloom for at least a couple weeks now. Any idea what they might be?

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posy_pet
16 years ago
Christie,I wonder if they are sweet pea trees.I thought they were a locust but can't find them under that name.We had them years ago and they are very pretty when they bloom but come up all over the yard.I think I dug them out.They made mowing almost impossible.They don't get very big.Posy Pet
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christie_sw_mo
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16 years ago
Thanks Posy Pet. I think you might be on the right track. I've been looking up different kinds of locust trees and the flowers are similar. I'll check out the leaves next time I go by there. I can't recall how big the trees are but I don't think they're small like a dogwood. The flowers are pretty showy and light pink and the flower clusters are several inches long. I bet their tree is suckering also. That would explain why they have three so close together. Maybe I can take a picture.
It's ok to stop in the middle of the road and take a picture of a tree right. lol
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Oldroser, I am excited, I think it may be a shadblow, I've googled them and they look so much like my tree...except mine is pink. And a lot taller than they usually get apparantly (the wild ones I see tend to be under 20') although one site says they can reach 40' but that size is very rare. I also have never noticed fruits on it but that may be because the birds notice them first! I have a friend who is a botanist take look at the tree in bloom and she did not know what it was - I think I'll run the possibility of a genetic variation of the shadblow by her. Whatever it is, it sure is beautiful. Our wild apples are not blooming yet either but will be soon. I love spring!
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I still think it was you but don't remember that much if kids were there. Wife black straight hair? Last Saturday at the Devonian gardens we talked about prunus Siberica and thought it to be a rather minor deviation of prunus Manchirica. Even though Siberica is likely to carry over the pink I still have one reserved thought that Robert Purvis knows of about Siberica. That it is an incredibly slow grower and is dwarf. Robert used to live in Alaska and in Idaho still does nothing but apricot in one of his collections in Washington. Gabe Botar was at the gardens who is another person knowing a great deal about apricot. He had scions of a prolific dwarf apricot with small good tasting fruits that he produced from crossed parents. Good stuff because slow growing and dwarf is always great for extreme cold or unprotected sites. For example flowering under the snow would delay bloom and escape the damaging spring frosts. If Clair Lammers (formerly from Edmonton) from Alaska ever grew Gabes apricot he would at least had fruits from this where all other his Manchurica experiments failed. My grandfather may have been around as a retired forester at the time those were planted and lived very close by. Only a remote possibility exists. I came across the trees a few years ago because I wanted to visit my childhood memories of the wading pool that still there in that place and not that anybody told me. Who ever planted them it seems very possible it was done from self pollinated Goldcot seeds similar the way you collected from the pink tree the seeds for another generation.
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pauln
16 years ago
Try to look up this tree.

Rose-Acacia, (Robinia hispida) aka Bristly Locust. Same genus as the honey locust.

There's a fairly rare ornamental whose name escapes me that has large clusters of pink flowers.

Other options may include Paulownia, Chinaberry.
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Marian_2
16 years ago
If it is the same Robinias that we see in the yard of an now abandened house on our way out to the highway, they are very invasive! Beautiful, but invasive. Thay have taken over the entire front yard. They are probably no taller than 8'.
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christie_sw_mo
Original Author
15 years ago
I don't think these are the same because they're quite a bit taller but I took a second look and there are more than I thought, I think at least 10 of varying sizes. I got a better look at the leaves too and they definitely look like some kind of locust. The tallest trees are maybe 30 feet or more, but some are small. It's either suckering or reseeding. Either way, I don't think I'll stop and ask for a start. lol
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christie_sw_mo
Original Author
15 years ago
This is a little late but I finally got my pics put on the computer so I might as well post it.
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