GLEBE TREES AND SHRUBS

Mock-orange (Philadelphus)



Form
 
Queen Elizabeth Drive and Fifth Ave.
Mock-orange is described by Durr as a "large rounded shrub
with stiff, straight, ascending branches that arch with age;
often leggy, straggly."
This is very much what that one looks like. The one at Queen
Elizabeth Drive and Broadway is small and pruned.





Leaves
 
Photo taken June 14, 2008. Corner Broadway and Queen Elizabeth Drive.
Leaves are opposite with only a few teeth.





Flowers
      
June 14 and 21, 2008. Showy flowers, lots of them on each shrub.


    
July 7, 2008. Only sepals left.




Fruit
      
These are last year's husks, globular and 4-parted. Some stay on the tree all year.





Similar species
List of trees and shrubs with opposite, simple, untoothed leaves