Requesting ID of this tree with white flowers - San Francisco, USA : 28052013 : ARK-02

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Alka Khare

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May 28, 2013, 12:08:03 AM5/28/13
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Hello friends

Requesting to please ID this medium sized tree with white flowers captured in Yosemite National Park, San Francisco, USA in May 2013.

Thanks and Regards
Alka Khare
White flowers Yosemite DSC05703.JPG
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White flowers Yosemite DSC05711.JPG
White flowers Yosemite DSC05710.JPG
White flowers Yosemite DSC05707.JPG
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White flowers Yosemite DSC05705.JPG

Mahadeswara

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May 29, 2013, 3:05:15 AM5/29/13
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One of the Dogwoods. Probably  Cornus florida . 

Aruna Rai

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May 29, 2013, 3:21:32 AM5/29/13
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May be Cornus nuttallii
.....Aruna

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Alka Khare

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Thank you Aruna ji for the ID...

Thanks and Regards
Alka Khare

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Ushadi Micromini

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Jun 5, 2013, 7:52:43 AM6/5/13
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Ms Khare?
are all these flowers from the same tree?

asking since they look as if they might not be?

do you recall?
usha di

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Alka Khare

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Jun 6, 2013, 3:12:45 AM6/6/13
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Hello Ushaji

No, all the photographs are not of the same tree. They belong to different trees in the park.

Regards
Alka Khare

J.M. Garg

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Jun 13, 2013, 5:15:54 AM6/13/13
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Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.

Some earlier relevant feedback:      

 One of the Dogwoods. Probably Cornus florida.- from Mahadeswara ji.

 May be Cornus nuttallii

.....Aruna

 are all these flowers from the same tree?


asking since they look as if they might not be?
do you recall?
usha di

 No, all the photographs are not of the same tree. They belong to different trees in the park.

Regards
Alka Khare


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Alka Khare

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Sep 21, 2019, 12:27:40 AM9/21/19
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This has been identified as C. nuttallii in a FB group.

Regards
Alka Khare


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Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.

Some earlier relevant feedback:      

 One of the Dogwoods. Probably Cornus florida.- from Mahadeswara ji.

 May be Cornus nuttallii

.....Aruna

 are all these flowers from the same tree?
asking since they look as if they might not be?
do you recall?
usha di

 No, all the photographs are not of the same tree. They belong to different trees in the park.

Regards
Alka Khare


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Hello friends

Requesting to please ID this medium sized tree with white flowers captured in Yosemite National Park, San Francisco, USA in May 2013.

Thanks and Regards
Alka Khare

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ushadi

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Sep 21, 2019, 1:10:03 AM9/21/19
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where are the pictures?

'Alka can you please bring them up here

please don't tell me to go search for them.

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Ushadi


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Saroj Kasaju

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Sep 21, 2019, 4:40:51 AM9/21/19
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Where is the image ? 

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Saroj Kasaju


J.M. Garg

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Sep 21, 2019, 11:44:29 PM9/21/19
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White flowers Yosemite DSC05707.JPG
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ushadi

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Sep 22, 2019, 12:05:57 PM9/22/19
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pics 06, 07, 10, and 11 are Cornus nutalli
mountain dogwood

pic 03 an d05 seem to be Cornus florida variety

not sure which one grows in wilderness areas of pacific coastal areas?

but nothing I impossible

and 62 not sure which one. most likely the wild  mountain dogwood.



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Ushadi

Alka Khare

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Sep 23, 2019, 9:52:32 PM9/23/19
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Thanks Usha di.

All the flower pics do have the same/very close to each other 'time taken'. So mostly they are of the same tree. I generally do that. However, I cannot be sure after these many years.

The long shot, however, has been clicked at a another time.

I asked Uncle Google about C. florida in Yosemite, but he could not give me much info on C. florida in Yosemite.
Would like to know why do you consider pics 03 and 05 to be another species (C. florida)? Is it because of the number of petals.

Regards
Alka Khare




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pics 06, 07, 10, and 11 are Cornus nutalli
mountain dogwood

pic 03 an d05 seem to be Cornus florida variety

not sure which one grows in wilderness areas of pacific coastal areas?

but nothing I impossible

and 62 not sure which one. most likely the wild  mountain dogwood.



Regards
Ushadi


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Hello friends

Requesting to please ID this medium sized tree with white flowers captured in Yosemite National Park, San Francisco, USA in May 2013.

Thanks and Regards
Alka Khare

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Mahadeswara

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Sep 25, 2019, 12:30:39 AM9/25/19
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Cornus for sure , but not  sure of the  species.  I have also seen this dogwood in Yosemite

ushadi

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Sep 25, 2019, 1:00:26 AM9/25/19
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Mahadesrawa ji
we see mountain dogwood in the pacific coast
on the mountains and in the parks or wilderness areas

but the controversy ids about the  c. florida type of flowers
and the link I have given above says some times the inns or private gardens have planted the usual  (ie eastern var of dogwoods)

I have seen private yards homes in some redwood forests from before they were protected parks

and those yard have non-native plants.  some people have started documenting them.
takes a long time to track them, but if one searches long enough you can find them.


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ushadi

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Sep 25, 2019, 1:20:23 AM9/25/19
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Alka

I like Uncle google.....

The flower petals really BRACTS are 4, and shape is different.
look at the distal end of the petals, its rounded and even has a vague notch or
what is reminiscent of a notch as in c. florida flower bracts/petals

ANd the real flowers look different to me,
I was not able to enlarge them well enough
to describe them officially.


Another dogwood c. capitata has similar bract shape as c. florida,
finally if you had gone back in end of summer or fall the red fruits would have been red, in either ...
but different looking.but its leaves to me are different. though you don't yet have many leaves.


But to me, you have two different types of flowers....
your major group is Mountain Dogwood.

sorry, that's as far as I can go today


Unless you can find the whole tree picture of these flowers
and we can point out that they arose from the same tree trunk, then
we can make a theory that perhaps the bracts are variable in numbers
 and shape in this particular mountain dogwood.


Regards

Ushadi

Alka Khare

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Sep 25, 2019, 10:27:08 PM9/25/19
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Got it Ushadi!
And I thought them to petals!

Ok, so to order them in ascending order of time taken:

DSC05703 - C. florida
DSC05705 - C. florida
DSC05706 - C. florida (having 4 bracts and hence C. florida)
DSC05707 - C. nuttallii
DSC05711 - C. nuttallii
DSC05762 - C. nuttallii

Thank you Usha di for explaining it so well.

Also attaching cropped pics of the real flowers.

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Alka Khare


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Cornus nuttallii_SFO Yosemite6.jpg
Cornus florida.jpg
Cornus nuttallii_SFO Yosemite5.jpg
Cornus nuttallii_SFO Yosemite6 - Copy.jpg

ushadi

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Sep 26, 2019, 7:23:43 AM9/26/19
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4 bracts is usual, but you will find some sites say 4 to 6
but I have never seen 6

its the other points
that seem to differentiate in my mind


and the third TREE picture.... I cant name it beyond Flowering Dogwood
neither should you 
unless your last pictures are from that tree....



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J.M. Garg

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