I'm no expert (ask my wife)..but living here in Atlanta area I would guess Magnolia. Same kind of leaves...
Okay. Could be I guess. I really thought it neat to find in November. It's always strange to leave home and when going south find things green where not much is green in MI at that time.
A few hours north of there. If one would draw a line between Bay City and Lansing, we would be about half way or thereabouts.
For your reading pleasure Dennis http://www.southernliving.com/home-garden/gardens/magnolia-trees http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia http://www.magnoliasociety.org/MagnoliaResources
Good, we had been wondering. It surely has a beautiful flower. The pictures were taken along side a street in DC. We were walking from our hotel to the National Mall when we spotting it and liked the looks of it but I did not know what it was. Now I do. Thanks to all.
Odd being a magnolia that it had buds in November unless those are seed pods from the previous year's bloom. We have one in the front yard and this is the first year it bloomed in the 8yrs we've been here, not a small tree either - but I did fertilize the yard and may have gone over that area a couple times to empty the hopper
Even here in Maine, we have magnolia trees. Ours are not evergreen, and the are weak and make a huge mess. I planted one many years ago thinking it was a shrub. Next thing I knew it was way up above the house. When the blooms started falling, you would have thought it snowed. When the leaves fell after a hard frost, the ground is smothered. Those berry like seed clusters look like animal waste. We were threatened by a hurricane so I had the multi trunked tree removed. The odor of the wood is unique. The roots spread way out beyond the plant and will tangle up anything.
The attraction to these is the are in bloom very early in the season. Often before the last frost, and yes, they can get frosted out. There are some more manageable ones, but they need to be pruned or they grow into trees. I'll stick to the flowering crabs for the big blush of spring color.
Definately magnolia. I was amazed at how thick North Carolina was with magnolia, and also mimosa.......lots of em down there. Pretty trees but messy for sure.
Stopped by my buddies house to pick up the splitter last night. Recently retired, he's taken up bowl turning and has blanks of Magnolia for some future work.
