Tree Tour
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Beauty of architecture juxtaposed with nature's unique form is splendidly
epitomized with this tree, saved from a threatened death when Allen
Library was constructed. View the tree against the library, or from
within the building--either way shows how saving mature trees when new
buildings go up can lend dignified beauty.
An Asia Minor species, this is the ancestor to the ubiquitous purpleleaf plums. In earliest spring the tree's gnarly old trunk, rough and dark, contrasts sublimely with snow white blossoms covering every twig. Then a head of lush green new leaves adorns it. Very few, small, yellow plums are made by this craggy specimen. |
![[Cherry Plum]](/home/treetour/graphics/24chplum.jpg)
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