...Don't get me started on the elitism of this park.
Anyhoo, Chionanthus is a great little flowering tree that, while rarely seen around New York City, I used to see all the time in Virginia. When it blooms there, it coincides with some of the first really hot days that serve as a prelude to summer. Here in New York that would certainly not be the case, as we're having such a chilly spring.
Chionanthus literally means snow-flower; chion is Greek for snow and as we've covered before, anthus means flower.
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I have something similar to this in Charlotte that was called a Chinese fringe tree. Same thing?
Same genus, yes! Chinese fringetree is Chionanthus retusus.
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