RE: Fringe Tree: botanical name: HELP!
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- Subject: RE: Fringe Tree: botanical name: HELP!
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 08:54:43 -0600 (MDT)
>
> Hi! You're probably looking for Chionanthus virginicus, which is native from
> Pennsylvania to Texas. According to the Sunset Western Garden Book, it should
> get to 30 feet and have magnificent greenish white flowers in the
> spring--sounds gorgeous!
>
> Barb, in Santa Fe, where I don't think I've ever seen a fringe tree.
>
If the tree exists in TX, it would be in East Texas where there is
more rainfall and the soil more acidic. I never saw or heard of a fringe
tree in TX in my 48 years of life there. I saw my first one in MS and it
is a fantastic tree.
Then, again it might be in the D/FW area. The Bradford pear was
just making in-roads there when I moved away. Now, everyone has a
Bradford pear; just like in the 50's when everyone got a mimosa. Rue the
day we planted mimosas! They are in the same bed with tractor tires!!!
Walter Moores (longing for bluebonnets and mesquite trees)
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
