Plantidote of the Day 2012-03-29

Are they fragrant?

and you're right -- it looks excellent for climbing. Or a tree house --that would be fun, up in the air, surrounded by a cloud of fragrant flowers. Yummmmm!

That could be a great many things. Examining the bark could help, but the best bet is to see what fruit comes from those flowers.

My guess would be a flower crab, or possibly a flowering cherry rather than a fruit production tree. It's a big old tree in either case, but i'd lean towards the crab because that will get bigger, faster than most flowering cherries.

I'm going to change my gut answer to it being a cherry tree. It's still possible that it could be either (even from the exposed leaf tip in the first picture), those are old branches and they retain the classic cherry bark: papery, dark, and marked perpendicular to the growth direction.

Is the ground below littered with last year's fruit? Granted, fall clean up and critters might make that hard, but crabs drop so many fruit that they're rarely all cleaned up.

Thanks!