Flowers

“It is not so much for beauty that the forest makes a claim upon [our] hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”

Robert Lewis Stevenson

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Flowering Trees

Yellow Poplar flower - Niagara Falls, New York Yellow Poplar flower - this tree is also called the Tulip Tree Mexican Pine - long reddish brown male flowers surround the tip, female Native to New Zealand, flowering at Christmas time, photographed at a nursery in Mexico, flowering tree known as the Christmas Tree
Yellow Spray - still researching ID; photographed at a tree nursery in Mexico Maple flowers blooming in February in Lewisville, Texas Jacaranda in Ajijic, Mexico Lilac blooming in May - Nepean, Ontario, Canada
Sumac flowering in July, Jones Falls, Ontario Sumac in July, Jones Falls, Ontario Pointsettia tree, Chapala, Mexico Dogwood buds, dormant in January; the flowers come out before the leaves
Dogwood blossoms in April, Lewisville, TX Crepe Myrtle, downtown Raleigh, NC  Unidentified pompom flowers on a tree in southwestern Mexico The Shavingbrush tree blooming during late March in Chapala, Mexico. 
Redbuds blooming in March, Coppell, TX, USA Large Magnolia blossom in a city park in Raleigh, North Carolina Large, heavy Banana flower about 6? diameter, in Chapala, Mexico “Linden Sunset” - very popular ornamental trees, Linden trees bloom during mid-March in Lewisville, Texas.