Sweetbay magnolia

Added a support photo to this spotting (my very first one) ... pull-back shot of the cones on their branches.

Thank you, Jemma ... I'm a big fan of mags.

Great. Thanks for your help!

Hi again, Forest Dragon. Took your suggestion about adding "same tree" links ... a flowering dogwood I've shot a good bit. Put the links in the Notes field. Is this what you meant?

Thanks, Dragon. I'm happy to have found a group of people who are into taking photos of trees, flowers, mushrooms, birds, etc. My Facebook friends are only moderately interested ... but all of y'all are crazy about it. New here, and just getting oriented, but I'll look into figuring out how to link photos of the same tree. Because I do often follow the same tree, shooting at different times of year. I have a 200-photo "Magnolia Diary" on my Facebook page, following a fairly small group of mags from bud to cone one year. Probably more magnolia than anyone really wants to see. But such an odd, noble, other-worldly, primitive tree ... the second-oldest blooming plant in the history of the world, I've read, after the lotus, and largely unevolved since that time. But to answer your question, most of the trees, plants, flowers, fungi, etc., I've photographed aren't in my yard. I just stop along the way. Thanks so much for the nice welcome.