Non Firewood Tree ID

[Eman85]

This tree is at the edge of my woods, there are a couple more in deeper in the woods but that's all I've found. We're leaning to Serviceberry but all of the pics of species we've found don't match the blooms. Take a look, tell me your opinion on what it is.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

My guess is dogwood. You’re far enough away from me that I don’t know what species are there though. Don’t hold me to it, lol.

 

[johneh]

My guess is dogwood. You’re far enough away from me that I don’t know what species are there though. Don’t hold me to it, lol.

X2 looks like dogwood around here but I may be wrong
My Mother always said don't bring it into house bad luck

 

[stoveliker]

Leaves and flowers do not look like the dogwoods I had in TN

 

[oilstinks]

Leaves and flowers do not look like the dogwoods I had in TN

Not here in WNC

 

[stoveliker]

Meaning? They do look like dogwood there?

(I said not, you said not, so double negative?)

 

[johneh]

Look up Dogwood there are about 6 different ones
The photo here matches the White Dogwood

 

[stoveliker]

I had three types down there (wild, not cultivated), but they were all different.
You may be right (though I find the veins in the leaves to look a bit different from the typical dogwood veining I know of).

 

[Prof]

I would turn this over to Google Lens.

 

[oilstinks]

Meaning? They do look like dogwood there?

(I said not, you said not, so double negative?)

Sorry my bad. Hillbilly coming out. The picture in the original post does not look like the dogwoods we have here.

 

[DuaeGuttae]

My first thought from just a picture of the blooms was “Nannyberry,” a type of Viburnum.. I think Nannyberry is a more northern tree/shrub, however, but something in the Viburnum family would make sense. It has opposite branching the way a dogwood does, too. You mentioned Serviceberry; does that mean you’ve noticed berries?

 

[EatenByLimestone]

I was thinking viburnum also, but have never seen one as a tree.

 

[qwee]

Is that some sort of Elderberry? They have clusters of berries like those small flowers will create. But there are probably many shrubs that fruit in clusters like that.

 

[AstroBoy]

I also don’t think this is a type of dogwood. Flowers are definitely not that of the most common flowering dogwood species. And for the White Dogwood picture posted above, the leaves have the distinctive dogwood curved veining, which I don’t see in the original picture. The bark is also less scaly than I’d expect for a dogwood.

I don’t have a good alternative ID to suggest, though.

 

[AstroBoy]

Ok, I did this:

I would turn this over to Google Lens.

That turns up lots of matches to types of viburnums, as suggested:

My first thought from just a picture of the blooms was “Nannyberry,” a type of Viburnum.. I think Nannyberry is a more northern tree/shrub, however, but something in the Viburnum family would make sense. It has opposite branching the way a dogwood does, too. You mentioned Serviceberry; does that mean you’ve noticed berries?

Browsing a few other links, my best guess is viburnum prunifolium, or Blackhaw. The Wikipedia page says “It is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 2–9 metres (7–30 ft) tall with a short crooked trunk and stout spreading branches; in the northern parts of its range, it is a shrub, becoming a small tree in the southern parts of its range.”

 

[Eman85]

I checked out Google Lens, never knew about it, and it gave me the info and links on Viburnum and it does look like it's Black Haw. Going to pay attention to it and see what I get for fruits. I will be going to the Arboretum and I'll see if they have any info. We have Viburnums but all shrubs. Thinning out the trees has allowed some trees to bloom that were never noticed.
We have Dogwoods and they were wild and haver the standard looking Dogwood blooms.
FWIW I went to look at the tree today and the heavy rain has knocked all of the blooms completely off.

 

[CincyBurner]

My initial impression was Prunus but looked opposite branching and flowers not in long racemes, so I'm leaning to some type of Viburnum. Looks good fo blackaw viburnum (V. prunifolium) - bark and flowers. Characteristic blackhaw twig branching is 80* from stem, but didn't notice much of that.