"Nick Maclaren" <nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message 
news:e34jkc$s1j$1@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk...
>
> In article <1146473728.642563.220030@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>, 
> "Declan Murphy" <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> writes:
> |> imnot911@aol.com wrote:
> |> > I think it's a cherry tree. Maybe a Kanzan variety. It's beautiful.
> |>
> |> If it is then I've might have a problem - fast growing tree up to 30/40
> |> feet in height :-(
> |>
> |> The petals seem to be different to what I can find on the web though...
>
> I would be extremely surprised if it were a cherry; almost everything
> about it looks wrong for that.  It would help if you could show close-ups
> of a single flower (front and back) and a flower cluster, and describe
> its leaves and flowers.
>
> Key questions about its flowers are the numbers of pistils, stamens,
> petals and sepals (even roughly).
>
>
> Regards,
> Nick Maclaren.

Nick it does enlarge sufficiently to see the "cherry like" bark and much 
more detail of the flowers.  It looks like one of those graft type things 
that has been buggad around with.
Perhaps a Daphne on a pear:-)