Help ID tree?

 

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/12097489_CJMFu
You can hover the mouse over the photo and select original
The second photo is a close up of the leaves showing the distinctive reddish
area.

I tried using tree identification web site but I can't answer some of the
questions

Anyway there is a distinctive red area on the leave, perhaps that is enough
clue for experts to identify the tree. It's been growing for 2-3 years and
was planted by a neighbor who moved away. Now nobody is maintaining it.

I want to know what tree it is because I want to know

(1) How big is it going to grow to. If more than 15 feet I might want to
remove it. There was a maple tree there previously and had to be remove
because it was breaking my driveway.

(2) whether to prune the bottom branches so that there is only one main
trunk

 



 Some type of pear I'd guess going by the leaf.  Look for Bradford pear.

--
Bill  S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
 What use one more wake up call?  

 

james said:

This tree had largish flowers before the leaves came out, yes?  Because when
I click on the close-up photo, I'm pretty sure I'm looking at a magnolia.
(Check the tip of the branch.)  


It appears to most likely be a hybrid ornamental variety of magnolia and
not a potential giant tree like M. grandiflora (southern magnolia).  

It could possibly reach 15 feet in 10 years or so.  Much, much MUCH less
likely to be heaving a driveway than a maple would be.  


Better off left multi-stemmed and low-branched, but that's a matter of taste.

--
Pat in Plymouth MI
    
"Vegetables are like bombs packed tight with all kinds of important
nutrients..."     --Largo Potter, Valkyria  Chronicles
 
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I could not figure out how to start a new thread, so I'll post my query
here.
I have a fruiting tree in my yard.. this is the first year since
I moved here
that fruit has appeared.  I've lived here 3 years.  I've
tried the online tree
identifiers but they can't narrow it down.  A lot
of the results bring me close
to the persimmon family but the fruit is
not persimmon... I'm pretty sure.

The fruit itself at this stage is small, about the size of a cherry
tomato.  The
skin is soft and fuzzy.  The fruit is globe shaped for the
most part, some of
them looking a little bit more like a young pear.
When cross sectioned, there
is a relatively thin band of light colored
fruit with a pentagon shaped seed
cluster center.  Each of the 5
sections of the pentagon appear to have clusters
of elongated
bean-shaped seeds in them.

The foliage is somewhat varied.  There are long shoots coming up from
the ground
with simple, alternating, smooth, oval shaped leaves tapering
to a dull point.
Some places have clusters of shoots coming out with
irregularly distributed
leaves.  There are shoots with leaves, and then
there are branches with shoots
with leaves with branches with leaves as
well.  The undersides of some leaves
are fuzzy, while others are not.
The edges of some leaves are wavy while some
are not.  80% of the leaves
are more or less perfectly formed with some small
portion of the leaves
forming damaged like a lobe or something.  The veins grow
out from a
central vein and toward teh edges of the leaves appear broken up like
dried mud. or a network of busy city streets.  The trunk is smooth
mostly with
lots of round bumpy spots where either it was pruned or who
knows what.  These
silvery/black bees really like this tree at certain
times of the year.

The fruit currently resembles young apricot right now, but I know it is
not
because of the seed pockets inside.  I have some pictures that can
be viewed
here:

'Pictures by emhartain - Photobucket' (http://tinyurl.com/2wnumkf )

Any information you can give me would be much appreciated.

'james[_2_ Wrote:

Doug Vernon

 

On Sat, 8 May 2010 14:33:20 -0400, Doug Vernon


Just a guess: quince