(unmitigated Vanity) ARBORIST FReepers -- what the $&%^ kind of tree is this?

Marty's Front Yard | 2/14/08 | marty

[martin_fierro]

Need help from you arborist FReepers in identifying what kind of tree this is.

Right now it's got a bunch of pussywillow-esque buds on it, but from what I've seen online of pussywillows they look more like bushes, not trees.

During the fall it produced a weird-looking pod of some sort. Sorry, don't have a photo of that.

[martin_fierro]

Maybe a goat willow?

[mware]

A kind of magnolia?

[martin_fierro]

WTF Is It? Ping.

[Lurker]

During the fall it produced a weird-looking pod of some sort.

Don't fall alseep near it, whatever you do.

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[mnehrling]

I'm no Arborist, but those pods remind me of ones you would see on a Magnolia tree before it bloomed.

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[EggsAckley]

Hey martin......

Did you see any of its leaves? If they’re huge leaves, it might be a Paulonia tree. Hard to tell though.

cheers!

[najida]

Looks like a type of magnolia....either a tulip or a star (my wild guess).

[RightWhale]

Was going to say alder, but sumac is more likely.

[Tijeras_Slim]

[mware]

I have a tree in my front yard like that, only much smaller.

My dad passed away some years ago, but he told me it was a magnolia when he planted it.

[Barb4Bush]

I don’t know what type of tree it is, but if it starts saying feed me, Seymour, feed me; I’d be careful.

[Proud_texan]

Looks like a Magnolia x soulangiana or Saucer Magnolia.

[martin_fierro]

Thanks, but don’t magnolias produce big white flowers? Don’t recall ever seeing any of those blooming.

[Hegemony Cricket]

It’s obviously a beeber tree - can’t you see how stuned it looks? Just wait ‘til those pods start attracting the moose...

[50mm]

Agree. It’s a magnolia. This from seeing myself how magnolia buds erupt.

[martin_fierro]

You two get a Time Out.

[najida]

Star Magnolia--- it could be they got frozen before they could bloom.

[50mm]

Thanks, but don’t magnolias produce big white flowers? Don’t recall ever seeing any of those blooming.

The tree is budding. The blooms will come in due time.

[mware]

Martin, the one in my front yard has only bloomed about 5 times in 30 years.

[xcamel]

Definitely a magnolia.

[1rudeboy]

You beat me to it.

[3D-JOY]

Fraxinus,

Help needed by the FR resident arborist!!!!

[50mm]

Here's a Wiki link to magnolia buds:Wiki magnolia

And a picture:

[doodad]

Reminds me of what we call a tulip tree. A type of magnolia with a showy blossom.

[martin_fierro]

On second thought, you Magnolia guys may have nailed it.

The seed pod looked a lot like this, which an internet search turns up as a Magnolia seed pod.

Now I guess all that remains is narrowing down exactly which type of magnolia.

[Non-Sequitur]

Magnolia probably

[IM2MAD]

Are there any trees lilke this in your neighborhood? Have you taken a sample to a local nursery for help in identifying it? In what zone are you?That may have a bearing as to what kind of tree it is. I googled “magnolia pod”. Do any of these results match the pods you find in the fall.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=magnolia+pod&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

[Shryke]

You two get a Time Out.

Oh, I see, it's actually a MITIGATED vanity now. I was GOING to tell you what the tree is, but I don't participate in nanny-state mitigated threads.

[mware]

The one in my yard is a Magnolia stellata, at least that is what it resembles when the blossoms do come out. As I said because I am up here in NJ, lots of times it does not bloom.

[cripplecreek]

What part of the country are you in? I looked at your profile and despite the fact that you’ve been banned it says you’re in Uruguay. I’ve got my tree book right here in fron’t of me but if you’re in one of them there furin countries I can’t help.

[Charles Henrickson]

[Chickensoup]

It looks like a saucer magnolia to me. If so prune it so it fills in and you will in five to ten years have a real showpiece. The magnolia that I pruned 15 years ago regularly makes the front pages of the local paper every spring.

[KC Burke]

Check on how to winter fertilize it and it may form blooms more reliably. I remember my dad had a magnolia like this in Kansas City, somewhat north of their normal climate and it didn’t bloom for about the first eight years.

After that it was reliable if it didn’t late freeze in the spring.

[ontap]

No
! It says he has not been banned.

[martin_fierro]

A lash with a Wet Noodle for you.

[CIDKauf]

Where do you live...South America?

[Jemian]

Try a chinese magnolia. It should be getting some very beautiful pink flowers soon when those buds open up. Breathtakingly beautiful.

[Jemian]

Chinese magnolia in bloom

Check back here in a week or two with the pictures of the flowers.

[Jemian]

5 times in 30 years? At my home in Auburn, AL, mine blooms every spring about now and then off and on throughout the summer. The summer blooms are hard to spot due to the leaves. But it is just stunning. A few years ago I posted some pictures of it on America - the Right Way!

[martin_fierro]

Love you guys.

[Tijeras_Slim]

You two get a Time Out.

I was hoping for a spanking instead.

[ovrtaxt]

Bradford Pear?

[spotbust1]

I think it is a Japanese magnolia or mulan magnolia, not sure the spelling on the last one is right. My parents have one in their front yard and the buds look exactly like that.

[Allegra]

I think it might be a fledgling sock tree.

[martin_fierro]

Same goes for you two.

[50mm]

This picture could get JimRob in trouble. I’d ask the mod to remove it.

[Allegra]

Ow!

Hey, look, I have a river view. Those are coveted.

[Shryke]

[Deaf Smith]

Fruitless Peartree.