please help identify this tree
melvee
14 years ago
Can anyone tell me what kind of tree this is? I am in southeastern VA - the Tidewater area. The blooms look similar to a butterfly bush, but maybe a little skinnier. Can you grow a butterfly bush as a tree, or is this something else?
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