What flowering tree grows pink chrysanthemum-like Flowers?

Discussion in 'Plants: Identification' started by Unregistered, Jun 21, 2004.

  1. Trying to identify a flowering tree, the flowers of which are light pink to white (mostly light pink), the flower looks like a Chrysantemum, the flower is speckled in pink. The tree's owner of this very,very,very beautiful tree believes it may be from"abroad". Please help no local person knows what the tree is or can even guess. Thank you so very much. Sincerely, Dr.A.G.Lowell, Santa Barbara, California email to: aagla@yahoo.com, please. Thank you for any consideration. No one has ever seen such beauitiful flowers that look most like a football chrysanthemum on a tree before!
     
  2. jimmyq

    jimmyq Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Doc, a picture speaks a thousand in a case like this....
     
  3. mr.shep

    mr.shep Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Hi Dr. A.G. Lowell:

    You will want to take some pics of this plant and try to post
    them into this forum if you can. If you are unsure how to post
    the images then contact Daniel Mosquin as he can help you.

    There is a nursery near you in Carpenteria that specializes in
    producing Chrysanthemum standards. They are Chrysanthemums
    that are trained to become a tree. Years ago (1992) there was a
    grouping of three plants in a border near the Sansum Medical
    Center.

    On a further note: Many people have on occasion called a certain
    Pink Snowball - a form of Viburnum, for example, a Chrysanthemum
    tree (actually a large shrub) as the flowers to the untrained eye can
    look a lot like a Chrysanthemum. To know which Viburnum it may
    be if the plant is not a Chrysanthemum standard, then we will need
    to see some pictures of it.

    Jim
     
  4. summerzug

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    WEEPING CHERRY LEAVES GROW PINK FLOWERS. SOMETIMES WHITE.
     
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  5. Silver surfer

    Silver surfer Generous Contributor 10 Years

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    Welcome Summerzug to this amazing site. Unfortunately we will never know the correct answer as Dr.A.G Lowell did not add a picture.Do visit again, you can learn so much from here .
     
  6. Ron B

    Ron B Paragon of Plants 10 Years

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    A weeping double cherry seems like a great fit except he concluded by saying that the flowers were like a football mum specifically - maybe it was something like a Jatropha.
     

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