Never seen this tree before

marcD

Hi everyone,

I live in the Netherlands. This tree is in my garden. It look very exotic and i cannot determine it...so maybe one of you can help?
It bears white and red fruits. The tree is about 5 meters high, for details see pictures.

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Davo The Terrible

Do you have any photos of the flowers? The fruits look a little like they belong to the Magnolia genus; the species of which I am not sure.

treeshaveneeds

I agree with Davo, looks like a Magnolia -- needs clear, focussed pics of leaves, and pics of flowers if have any. Pics of bark, tree structure and site may be helpful.

bsearcey

Definitely a magnolia. Looks like Umbrella magnolia (M. tripetala) with the leaf arrangment. Not sure if that occurs in your neck of the woods though.

smalc

It looks like what we call "bigleaf magnolia" here in the Southeastern US. But looking up umbrella magnolia, it may be closer to that. Both are native to the Southeastern US.

bsearcey

PLANTS Profile for Magnolia tripetala (umbrella-tree) | USDA PLANTS

Link for the USDA plant profile for M. tripetala. I notice that the pictures on the website shows the fruiting body with a color very similar to the posters. Not sure if that is a very defining characteristic, but they do look very similiar altogether. The website shows a distribution up to Massachusets in the States. I'm not sure if zone wise that is similar to the Netherlands.

Eden Keeper

It is an umbrella-tree, Magnolia tripetala (L.) L., since the leaf base is acute unlike all the other large leaved deciduous magnolias, which have arcuate (ear-lobe shaped) leaf bases.