"Cat(h)" <cathy_ie@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> Declan Murphy wrote:
>> (Apologies for the crosspost)
>>
>> Would some kind soul identify this flowering tree for me please? It is
>> about 45 centimetres high, and I've inherited it from the previous
>> owner of the garden. The stem is only about 15mm thick at the base, so
>> I'm assuming it was planted early last year or the year before. Thought
>> it may be dead, but it began flowering about 10 days ago.
>>
>> http://www.declan.tv/images/what_kind_of_tree_is_this.jpg
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>> (image is 186KB)
>>
>> Regards Declan,
>> Botanically challenged,
>> Okazaki, Japan
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> When I first saw it, I immediately thought of a forsythia - only a
> bright pink one instead of yellow.  But I googled for pink forsythia,
> and while there is such a thing, it doesn't look much like your plant.
> Come to think of it, the only commonality with forsythia is the bright
> flowers on bare stems, the leaves coming only second later in Spring.
> Fat lot of good my answer is :-)
> Well done, all the same, Declan.  It looks like you've stumped a whole
> newsgroup of experts (and don't include me in that).
> Cat(h)
>

Declan can do miracles with pink paint and Sellotape:-)