Lovely photos, jkom, but I'm pretty sure those campanula-like blue and white flowers are balloon flower -- platycodon grandiflorus(which, to be sure, is a campanula relative). If you look in the background of your photos, you will see the eponymous balloon-y buds before they open. Kay

I wonder if it's a Pittosporum undulatum Victorian Box Pittosporaceae Origin: Australia, Africa and Asia SPECIES CHARACTERISTICS: Evergreen, broadleaf tree. Moderate - fast growth rate, 30 - 40' in height, equal spread. Round to dome shape. FOLIAGE: Simple leaf, alternate arrangement, elliptic to oblong leaf shape. Entire undulate margins, glabrous surface teIture. 4 - 6" long 1 - 1 1/2" wide. Light yellow to deep green in color . FLOWERS: Perfect; fragrant; similar to orange blossoms. Creamy white in color. 1/2" in size. Spring. FRUIT: Dehiscent, round capsule. Orange when fruit is mature, 1/2" in size. STEM / TRUNK: Single trunk or multi-trunk. BARK: Somewhat smooth, light gray to dark gray. EXPOSURE: Full sun; Hardiness: Sunset zones: 14, 17 - 21, 24. SOIL: Well drained. WATER: Low water needs. PESTS/DISEASES: Aphids, scale, sooty mold. PRUNING: To shape and for clearance. PROPAGATION: Seed - cutting. USES: Accent, background, barrier, erosion control, fragrant, right of way, screen, shade, slope, seasonal color, specimen and windbreak. COMMENTS: Sticky seeds can pose a littler problem. I love these trees they also have a lot of them in San Luis Obisbo, I was just there a couple of weeks ago and they were all in bloom, they smell wonderful! Is this the flower?

that wound looks like it has been there for years ... and i think the white specks are normal bark ... hard to go much further w/o a pic of the tree as a whole ... and the peeps in the fruit forum .. who i have never seen here.. might be better able to help ... ken

People have really turned their back on dark natural wood tones and mixed wood tones juxtaposed together and I think that is one reason all of this is disappearing. People are willing to paint drywall a dark moody color because it's latex paint and it doesn't seem like much of a commitment. I think if Frank Lloyd Wright houses were easier to live in and maintain, they would be bought by more typical buyers and all the wood in some of them would be painted out, too. As it is, they attract a very specific sort of buyer, someone much less likely to alter. Photography is misleading, because a lot of time rooms that get a fair amount of light seem to photograph "dark". The reality is that so many modernist houses have so many windows, and windows in unusual positions that they actually get more light inside despite being covered with dark wood, than a conventional too fat house with middles of open concept rooms far from windows--light colored drywall not withstanding. My third floor has an exposed sheathing-raftered ceiling with a flat Jacobean stain on it (fumed oak color almost, and completely non reflective) but sometimes the room is still actually bright.