understory tree/bush with frilly white flowers

wsmoak

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I noticed this while walking the property today:

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It's growing in the understory, kind of leaning over and out from under bigger trees.

Here are pics with more detail of the leaves and flowers:

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There are larger images available here: http://www.pbase.com/wendysmoak/spring2011

It smells good -- clean and fresh, like the lilac bush. It's almost certainly wild, I don't believe anyone would have planted anything in that location...

Any ideas what it is?

-Wendy
 

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Huh. The grancy graybeards I've seen around here have been much "fuller" in terms of flowers.
 

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AmyRey said:
Huh. The grancy graybeards I've seen around here have been much "fuller" in terms of flowers.
Are they in full sun? This one isn't getting much, the poor thing is bent over and growing sideways trying to get out from under the big trees.

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Yeah, they're usually in someone's yard or on the edge of a tree line.

Like the one in the link you posted.
 

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Yup, for sure that is fringe tree. They're nice, I keep contemplating trying one here but honestly we are just in too cold a microsite too far to the edge of their range, I think it'd just languish and die. One of your better class of large bushes or small trees or whatever you want to call it! :)

I've never seen any as bushily-flowered as the one in that link. Wow. The ones I've seen are a lot more like the original poster's pic. Honestly I like them better that way I think (the sparser version)!

Pat
 

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