[Carolines Garden]

Hi
Can anyone identify the tree that I have? It looks a bit like a conifer but in the shape of a tree. In spring, bright red blossom appears on the tips of each branch. Hopefully the attached photos are clear enough. I have only attached one but I'll add another post with a close up.
Thanks

[Carolines Garden]

Here is a close up of the tree I mentioned in the other post

[Yorkie]

Hi Caroline

I've just merged your piccies into one thread so it's easier for people to look at the two piccies together.

Not sure what the tree is, though...

[Carolines Garden]

Thanks Yorkie!
Yeah, I can't find the tree in any books that I have.

[sunshineband]

The close up picture is exactly like Cypress flowers, and the foliage matches too. Not sure which one though, but it is at least a start 

[mumofstig]

picea orientalis - Oriental Spruce

[sunshineband]

If you enlarge the picture, the flowers do not look cone shaped, but the tree outline could be a spruce perhaps. Hmmmmm 

[Yorkie]

My pocket hessayon book says picea orientalis has yellow leaves in spring?

But closer than any guess I could magic up!

[sunshineband]

Now I have had a good search: Chaemaecyparis lawsoniana seems to have the right foliage and the right flowers (bear in mind it will have two kinds -- male and female and the female ones would be small roundish cones)

http://www.floralimages.co.uk/page.php?taxon=chamaecyparis_lawsoniana,4

Link above and the photo I saved

What do you think?

[mumofstig]

My pocket hessayon book says picea orientalis has yellow leaves in spring?

But closer than any guess I could magic up!

RHS disagrees with Hessayon
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=3824

[Yorkie]

Oh well ... 

[Carolines Garden]

Sunshine, I think that's it! I had so much trouble trying to find it. Thank you very much