Flowering trees
Blossom and bloom overhead: cherry, jacaranda, magnolia, gulmohar.
PeachPrunus persica
A flowering fruit tree from China, grown for its pink blossoms and sweet fruit
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering tree
WillowSalix
Deciduous trees and shrubs with early spring catkin flowers
Salix · Wildflower
AlmondPrunus amygdalus
A Mediterranean tree grown for its fragrant spring flowers and edible seeds
🇮🇷 Iran and 6 more · Flowering tree
ApricotPrunus armeniaca
A small fruit tree with early white to pink blossoms and golden-orange fruit
🇨🇳 China and 6 more · Flowering tree
Wild cherryPrunus avium
A tall flowering tree native to Europe, grown for its sweet fruit and spring blossom
🇮🇹 Italy and 6 more · Flowering tree
HawthornCrataegus
A thorny shrub or tree with white or pink spring flowers and small edible fruits
🇮🇪 Ireland and 7 more · Wildflower
Malus
The genus of apples and crabapples with spring blossoms and autumn fruit
Malus · Flowering tree
Bay laurelLaurus nobilis
Evergreen tree with aromatic leaves used as bay leaf in cooking
🇬🇷 Greece and 9 more · Flowering tree
Pedunculate oakQuercus robur
A towering oak tree with stalked acorns, native to Europe and western Asia
🇷🇸 Serbia and 8 more · Flowering tree
Prunus
The group of trees and shrubs with stone fruits like cherries, plums, and almonds
Prunus · Flowering tree
LilacSyringa
Fragrant spring-flowering shrubs and small trees grown for their showy clusters
Syringa · Flowering shrub
Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum
A large flowering tree known for its white spring blooms and shiny brown conkers
🇦🇱 Albania and 7 more · Flowering tree
Black locustRobinia pseudoacacia
A tall, fragrant-flowered tree native to eastern North America
🇺🇸 United States and 7 more · Flowering tree
Camellia
Evergreen shrubs and trees with showy blooms, best known for tea and garden flowers
🇨🇳 China and 6 more · Garden flower
Taiwan cherryPrunus campanulata
An early-blooming cherry tree with deep pink, bell-shaped flowers
🇨🇳 China and 4 more · Flowering tree
Saucer magnoliaMagnolia × soulangeana
A spring-flowering magnolia with large pink, white, or purple blooms
🇫🇷 France and 1 more · Garden flower
Houpu MagnoliaMagnolia officinalis
A Chinese mountain magnolia valued for its fragrant white flowers and aromatic bark
🇨🇳 China · Flowering tree
Sargent's cherryPrunus sargentii
A hardy cherry tree with single pink blossoms from Japan, Korea, and nearby regions
🇯🇵 Japan and 2 more · Flowering tree
Guettarda speciosa
A coastal shrub with fragrant white flowers found on tropical beaches
🇦🇺 Australia and 5 more · Wildflower
Bayur treePterospermum acerifolium
A tall Southeast Asian tree with large fragrant white flowers and dinner-plate leaves
🇲🇲 Myanmar and 2 more · Flowering tree
Spanish cherryMimusops elengi
A fragrant evergreen tree with cream flowers and edible fruit
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Flowering tree
Rhododendron kesangiaeཏ་ལ
A tall rhododendron tree with rose pink flowers, found only in Bhutan
🇧🇹 Bhutan · Wildflower
Prunus itosakura糸桜
A long-lived wild cherry of Japan with clouds of pale flowers before the leaves
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 more · Wildflower
Kousa dogwoodCornus kousa
A small East Asian tree with showy white bracts and sweet red berries
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 more · Flowering tree
Japanese snowbellStyrax japonicus
A small tree with hanging white bell flowers from East Asia
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 more · Flowering tree
Brugmansia
Tropical South American shrub with large, trumpet-shaped, fragrant flowers
Brugmansia · Garden flower
Geiger treeCordia sebestena
A tropical tree with bright orange-red flowers and rough, dark green leaves
🇨🇺 Cuba and 3 more · Flowering tree
Pride of IndiaLagerstroemia speciosa
A tree with showy pink to purple flowers, grown across South and Southeast Asia
🇮🇳 India and 6 more · Flowering tree
Illawarra flame treeBrachychiton acerifolius
A tall Australian tree with bright red bell-shaped flowers
🇦🇺 Australia · Flowering tree
Princess treePaulownia tomentosa
A fast-growing tree with large violet-blue flowers and broad leaves
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering tree
Hong Kong orchid treeBauhinia × blakeana
A purple-flowered tree, emblem of Hong Kong, grown for its showy blooms
🇭🇰 Hong Kong and 1 more · Flowering tree
Golden trumpet treeHandroanthus chrysotrichus
A Brazilian tree with golden-yellow trumpet-shaped spring flowers
🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 more · Flowering tree
ApricotPrunus armeniaca
A spring-flowering fruit tree with white or pink blossoms and orange-yellow fruit
🇦🇲 Armenia and 7 more · Flowering tree
Flowering dogwoodCornus florida
A small tree with white, pink, or red bracts, native to eastern North America
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Flowering tree
Prunus 'Kanzan'Prunus ‘Kanzan’
A Japanese cherry tree with large, deep pink double blossoms
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 more · Flowering tree
Purple glory treePleroma granulosum
A tropical tree with purple flowers from Brazil and Bolivia
🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 more · Flowering tree
Cherry blossomPrunus subgenus Cerasus
The spring-blooming flower of ornamental cherry trees, central to Japan’s hanami custom
🇯🇵 Japan and 2 more · Flowering tree
Chilean firebushEmbothrium coccineum
A small evergreen tree with vivid red spring flowers from Chile and Argentina
🇨🇱 Chile and 2 more · Flowering tree
Protea afra
A variable shrub or small tree with pink to red flower heads from southern Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa and 6 more · Wildflower
Protea roupelliae
A small tree or shrub from southern Africa with striking flower heads
🇿🇦 South Africa and 1 more · Wildflower
Rhododendron arboreum
A Himalayan rhododendron with clusters of red, pink, or white bell-shaped flowers
🇳🇵 Nepal and 7 more · Wildflower
Wild Himalayan CherryPrunus cerasoides
A cherry tree with pinkish white blossoms from the Himalayas and Southeast Asia
🇮🇳 India and 5 more · Flowering tree
Flame of the forestButea monosperma
A tree with vivid orange-red flowers, sacred in Hindu and Buddhist traditions
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Flowering tree
Yulan magnoliaMagnolia denudata
A white-flowered magnolia from China with a citrus scent
🇨🇳 China and 1 more · Flowering tree
Yellow Mai flowerOchna integerrima
A yellow-flowered tree central to Vietnamese New Year celebrations
🇻🇳 Vietnam and 2 more · Flowering tree
Pussy willow
Soft, silvery spring catkins from several small willow species
🇷🇺 Russia and 4 more · Wildflower
Red silk-cotton treeBombax ceiba
A tall Asian tree with bright red spring flowers and cottony seed pods
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering tree
Golden showerCassia fistula
A tree with long clusters of bright yellow flowers in late spring and early summer
🇮🇳 India and 6 more · Flowering tree
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Bay laurel: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 us, source
- Almond: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Camellia: junichiro aoyama, CC BY 2.0, source
- Wild cherry: MPF, CC BY 2.5, source
- Prunus: Benjamin Gimmel, BenHur, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Malus: Chrumps, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Peach: Jack Dykinga, USDA, Public domain, source
- Hawthorn: Nadiatalent, Public domain, source
- Pedunculate oak: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Willow: Jdforrester, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Apricot: Fir0002, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lilac: Marisa DeMeglio, CC BY 2.0, source
- Horse-chestnut: Stephan van Helden, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Black locust: Annabell Hormann / korina.info, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Taiwan cherry: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Saucer magnolia: Piotr Kuczynski, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Houpu Magnolia: Bruce Marlin, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sargent's cherry: Usien, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Guettarda speciosa: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bayur tree: J.M.Garg, CC BY 3.0, source
- Spanish cherry: Wibowo Djatmiko ( Wie146 ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rhododendron kesangiae: Phuentsho, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Prunus itosakura: Alpsdake, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kousa dogwood: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Japanese snowbell: Dalgial, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Brugmansia: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Geiger tree: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Pride of India: The original uploader was Lokenrc at English Wikipedia ., CC BY 2.5, source
- Illawarra flame tree: Bidgee, CC BY-SA 3.0 au, source
- Princess tree: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 2.5, source
- Hong Kong orchid tree: Ianare, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Golden trumpet tree: José Reynaldo da Fonseca, CC BY 2.5, source
- Flowering dogwood: No machine-readable author provided. Koba-chan assumed (based on copyr, CC BY 2.5, source
- Prunus 'Kanzan': Myrabella, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Purple glory tree: Mauroguanandi, Public domain, source
- Cherry blossom: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Chilean firebush: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Protea afra: Paul venter, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Protea roupelliae: Dwergenpaartje, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rhododendron arboreum: Marcus334, CC BY 3.0, source
- Wild Himalayan Cherry: Patcharapapats, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Flame of the forest: SumaTagadur 05:01, 28 March 2007 (UTC), CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Yulan magnolia: Photo by and (c)2016 Derek Ramsey ( Ram-Man ), CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Yellow Mai flower: Mrfly911, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Pussy willow: Bernie, Public domain, source
- Red silk-cotton tree: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Golden shower: Delonix, CC BY-SA 3.0, source