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Wednesday, June 1. 2016

Identify this small tree

Giant, tropical-looking leaves and large white flowers as in this photo from Sunday. Quite a few of them growing on the High Line.



Posted by The News Junkie in Gardens, Plants, etc. at 13:29 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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It looks like it may be a fig tree.
#1 Adrienne on 2016-06-01 14:38 (Reply)
Nope.

I don't know what it is but it's not a fig.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2016-06-01 14:40 (Reply)
Magnolia
#2 Daryl on 2016-06-01 14:44 (Reply)
Ash Magnolia.
#3 Andrew Stanton on 2016-06-01 15:00 (Reply)
Cowcumber is another name for this one. Member of the magnolia family.
#4 Wes Bennett on 2016-06-01 15:13 (Reply)
ginkgo??
#5 la on 2016-06-01 16:03 (Reply)
Magnolia macrophylla aka bigleaf magnolia, aptly named.

Native to the southeast US but can be grown further north.
#6 botanyman on 2016-06-01 16:34 (Reply)
We were trying to identify this one last year. Lots and lots of them in the ridges and valleys near the pa Appalachia chain. I never saw the flower though. They must be prolific seed spreaders because i had one spring up in the backyard. Although its where we split firewood (that's trucked in from elsewhere).
So it might have hitched a ride.
#7 fjord on 2016-06-01 16:48 (Reply)
Its essentially a wild magnolia. Kinda how a hickory is a wild pecan.
#8 ccoffer on 2016-06-01 17:55 (Reply)
it's definitely a Japonica Europa
#9 jpm on 2016-06-01 22:40 (Reply)
Looks like what we in Ohio call a "Cucumber Tree," a member of the Magnolia Family. So called because after the flower it produces a long seed-pod that reminds one of a cucumber.
#10 PYDOG on 2016-06-02 09:24 (Reply)
Macrophylla, most likely. Can be found hereabouts in No. Georgia
#11 Will on 2016-06-02 10:44 (Reply)

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