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Real Estate Agent with Century 21 Hardee-Team Realty

Do you know what kind of trees these are?  I have been searching and the closest I can find is pears, crabapples or dogwood.  The first tree is slightly different then the second and third pictures, so it may be two different kinds of trees.

White Flowering trees

The picture above was taken in Heatherwood Village in Houston, Texas which is adjacent to Loutta Road.  On the other side of Louetta, the city is considered Tomball.

White flowering Trees

These trees are in Tomball on the side of Loew's in Tomball off of the new FM249.  I acually did a blog last fall about these trees with their beautiful gold and red foliage before the leaves fell off.  I thought they were birch trees, but the pictures don't match birch trees on the internet. 

Here is what the flowers look like up close.

Close up

They are very cute, and they have a slight unpleasant smell.  The flowers only last about two days and then they fall off.

Do you know what they are?  Please leave a comment.

Tanya Stevenson
Park Avenue Properties Of Colorado Springs LLC - Colorado Springs, CO
Tanya Stevenson, CDPE, 1-719-963-6582

Wish I could help, those are beautiful trees! I'd be interested to know as well...

Mar 11, 2010 05:07 AM
John Pusa
Glendale, CA

Hi Liz,

I can not identify those trees, but I will research about it. They very are bueatiful trees.

John

Mar 11, 2010 05:08 AM
Steve Mattison
Canyon de Chelly National Mo, AZ
Vietnam Veteran

I don't know either but you take great pictures!!!

Mar 11, 2010 05:12 AM
Liz Flint
Century 21 Hardee-Team Realty - Houston, TX
Houston\Tomball Realtor (832)816-8066

Hi Tanya, John and Steve, thanks for you interest.  John, let me know if you find out what they are.   Thanks Steve for your appreciation of my pictures -- I'm not an expert, but I sure try hard.

Mar 11, 2010 09:32 AM
Russel Ray, San Diego Business & Marketing Consultant & Photographer
Russel Ray - San Diego State University, CA

Hey, Liz - Identifying urban fruit trees can be an exercise in futility unless you have a fruit. Geneticists and growers have created so many cultivars and hybrids that all have the same type of flowers. Yours could be a plum, cherry, pear, apricot, peach, mulberry, or crabapple. It's not a dogwood, and I don't think it's a mulberry. My best guess without a fruit would be crabapple hybrid, mainly because there are several down the street from me just like that in your picture. However, ours are finished blooming.

I have some flower pictures and colorful leaf pictures around here somewhere but I can't find them right now. Just too many uncataloged pictures from my handy dandy Canon Rebel XSi.

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Mar 15, 2010 09:27 PM
Liz Flint
Century 21 Hardee-Team Realty - Houston, TX
Houston\Tomball Realtor (832)816-8066

Hi Russel, crabapples would be cool, I'll have to go by there after the flowers are gone and see what kind of fruit it is.

Mar 16, 2010 06:39 AM
Jim Frimmer
HomeSmart Realty West - San Diego, CA
Realtor & CDPE, Mission Valley specialist

I figured if there were trees, flowers, bushes, bugs, animals, birds, etc., Russel would be around somewhere.

Mar 25, 2010 03:09 PM
Melanie Hedrick
Elite Texas Properties, the best homes from McKinney to Dallas! - McKinney, TX
972-816-7205

These trees look like the Bradford Pears we have here in McKinney, TX.  Nice shaped tree, flowers in the spring, but no fruit.  The first photo is a different type of tree -- not sure about that one.

Mar 31, 2010 01:51 AM
Anonymous
Lee

Flowers look like Hawthorne but the trees look to big. Maybe they​ grow bigger across the pond than in sunny Wales

Apr 06, 2017 02:51 PM
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Anonymous
Amy

I've been wondering this too. They do look like fruit trees, but I'm seeing them everywhere around Jersey Village and in business parking lots along 290 and such. That leads me to believe they aren't fruit trees, or we'd have a LOT more rotting fruit around this city! I'm also curious!

Mar 08, 2018 06:36 AM
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