A Story Teller Tree

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A Story Teller Tree – 1

Photograph by Rajender Krishan – May 3, 2005

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Quince or Crabapple!

Today this tree in our neighborhood caught my attention while driving towards my home. I must have seen this tree many times before but only today it intrigued me. Splitting into two at its base, the tree has two stems – one shooting upwards towards the skies with mostly small white flowers while the other with lesser height is loaded predominantly with red flowers.

There does not seem to be another tree of this kind in this vicinity - at least I don't know one.

My immediate reaction was that this tree maybe a hybrid or grafted. However, subsequent close up pictures don't seem to support this idea fully particularly as the right stem while has predominantly white flowers also has odd shoots with red flowers.

– Continued