What dusty-looking shrub?

I guess it's dense hairs that are making the leaves and buds on this shrub look dusty. And the white branches. Seen in a yard on Dunbar Street.

 

Edgeworthia chrysantha ?

 

Edgeworthia chrysantha has had buds since January and has been fully in bloom for at least a month. And it does that thing with the branches dividing into threes.

 

Definitely not Edgeworthia.
Looks like Pyrus salicifolia pendula. Willow leaf pear.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=p...uoD4Cw&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=967

 

That seems likely, can be a beautiful tree.

 

Thanks. I'm always happy when an ID turns out to be something I really didn't know.

 

See it at Van Dusen.

 

I'm sure it will be more impressive than that poor thing, but it served its purpose in making me aware of it.

 

Thought somebody would have a habit photo taken there but all I found (without spending more time on it) was this close view of an inflorescence from Van Dusen - the flowers of this kind of pear are nice to look at.

http://www.artflakes.com/en/products/weeping-willow-leaved-pear-731

 

There was/is a very nice one west of the alpine troughs at the path junction, if things haven't changed too much there.

 

OK, Nadia wants to go there before Douglas's Blossom Biology workshop next Thursday (everyone is welcome, register by contacting me), so I'll try to get a habit photo.

 

Here's one at VanDusen. Much nicer looking. Are they all 'Pendula'? They didn't have the cultivar name on the label, but did call it "Weeping Willowleaf Pear".

 

That one looks different than the tree I remember seeing, maybe my memory's not too good.
Will try to get a shot of the one I liked later this month.