Here's the featured plant yesterday, Koelreuteria paniculata, next to the education building. Right now the fruits look great and it still has flowers. The one in the North Garden seems to be at peak bloom. Douglas Justice identified this Distylium racemosum for us. Nadia recognized that it was Hamamelidaceae. That was pretty amazing to me. Over in the North Garden, the flowers on this Senna hebecarpa in the Carolinian Forest are very showy. I like the way the leaves sit on edge, perpendicular to the plane of the branch. It's the stems and the berries that are colourful on this Cornus alternifolia. And speaking of colourful berries, here's Rhus aromatica. So here's my admission on Oxydendrum arboreum. I was very excited when I saw one at Riverview last weekend, thinking it was totally new to me. Nadia, however, said "You are joke about Oxydendrum!", which was so appropriately expressed. She says we've been looking at it every week to see if it's in bloom; not only that, I posted the one in the garden two years ago, in October. I guess that must have been the fruits - I was mentioning yesterday that I need a remedial course on telling the difference between a flower bud and a fruit. At least I recognized with the Riverview one that it's Ericaceae and was able to come up with the ID. Anyway, flowers have finally started to open.
This thread from last August indicated that it would show things in bloom, and then I posted fruits of Rhus aromatica. Here are the flowers.
