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What is this Orange Flower Tree?
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Posted by
adamsmba Zone 5 KY (
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Wed, May 9, 12 at 21:37
| I drive past a neighborhood on my way to work every day in the Spring and there is a beautiful tree with ORANGE flowers. It appears to be a dwarf, patio sized tree planted right beside the porch. I stopped one day and rang the doorbell and asked, and they said the tree was there when they bought the house but I was not the first person who had stopped to ask. She said she had been told it was an Azalea tree, but after researching I don't think so. I took pictures this Spring. I wish I could post a picture, but can't figure out how to post to this forum. |
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RE: What is this Orange Flower Tree?
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| I have seen deciduous azaleas with orange flowers in yards around my area. They are shrubs not trees, maybe that is why you can't find info on them. Try the rhody azalea forum, they will know more about the plant you're after. |
RE: What is this Orange Flower Tree?
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| Rooted azalea cuttings can indeed be shaped and pruned into tree form remaining fairly short John |
RE: What is this Orange Flower Tree?
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| Last year in Ohio I discovered "Gibralter" Azaelas. They were all bush like, but exceptionally orange when in flower. |
RE: What is this Orange Flower Tree?
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 Did it look like this? My exbury and flame azaleas are blooming now. This is an exbury and so vivid it practically glows. I don't know if I have it tagged or not. I get haphazard about that. |
RE: What is this Orange Flower Tree?
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| There are a couple of flowering quinces that are orange, too, like 'Orange Storm' - -that could conceivably be trained to a standard as well. There is a house a couple of miles away from me on the main road that has a trumpet vine trained to a standard, which puts on quite a nice display every year, although I imagine it takes a tremendous amount of work to keep it from going wild with the growth. However, that wouldn't be blooming so early, even in the Southern states, I don't believe. |
Pegging by bloom
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| The blooms on flowering quince are much smaller than these azaleas, at least on mine and tend to have some white or ligher flush in them. These blooms are quite substantial, much closer to the class we call rhodies. Of course the flowering quince are thorny as well. |
RE: What is this Orange Flower Tree?
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| Pomegranate trees also have orange flowers. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Pomegranate trees in flower
RE: What is this Orange Flower Tree?
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- Posted by botann z8 SEof Seattle (My Page) on
Sun, May 13, 12 at 19:56
Here's one of my deciduous Azaleas with a fragrant yellow one in back.
Mike 
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RE: What is this Orange Flower Tree?
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| They are really under-used in the landscape but are starting to come into their own now. I think I have collected at least eight different ones now and have found that some of the deciduous azaela are even fragrant. What I really like about them are that they get away from the pink spectrum and inject some fire into spring, and their structural bones aren't the same old/same old dense blob as the evergreen varieties. |
RE: What is this Orange Flower Tree?
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| I had no idea pomegranate trees have such beautiful flowers. I have seen people keep them potted as ornamental. Mostly because I live in Toronto and it would be too cold to grow outdoors. However, I grow deciduous azaleas and love the yellows and oranges, nice warm colours. There's too much pink. I can only imagine varieties grown in Southern states. Oops is that envy I'm feeling? |
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