Your favorite tree or plant

Palm Trees. All different kinds. They comfort me. Did you notice that magnificent palm in front of Mildred Pierce's house?

R1, sit by me! I love Palms.

My favorite is the dogwood tree. While it comes in many colors I am particularly fond of the native white variety found in North Carolina.

The weeping birch looks exotic to me.

A tall gingko, in canary yellow fall color, is a show stopper.

Annabelle hydrangeas; large white caps of flowers. They are lovely hedges...They make me smile.

Easy, Jacaranda!

Southern Magnolia

Agreed, OP.

R1 love palms too! Gorgeous!

R3 Dogwoods are so beautiful and I always think of The South (in US) in the spring when my thoughts turn to them.

R7 Jacarandas are always so thrilling to spot. I’ve seen some that stay in bloom for over 6 months. Wow!

My favourite plant is the unique Bird of Paradise: blooms through the year and has several “waiting blooms” underneath the original bloom to pull forward when the original bloom withers. Fascinating plant.

And my favourite tree is the boab tree of Northwestern Australia. Otherworldly:

Wisteria, fuchsia and weeping willows.

I'm fond of the manzanita.

Also love wisteria, ginkos and weeping willows.

I love old, gnarly trees like old olive trees.

Giant old shade trees (preferably maple)

Sunny von Bulow.

California oak.

Wisteria. My parents have a 70 year old one in the front yard - it has overtaken a 40 foot pine tree- when in full bloom, it's spectacular.

Cedar trees.

Plumeria (Frangipani)

Another vote for Jacaranda

Spanish Moss

One of my favorites is the mayten tree. I live in Northern CA and you see them in SF and the North Bay. I first saw one in Santa Rosa at the Luther Burbank Home & Gardens and bought one for my garden.

They look like small weeping willows and are evergreen with delicate looking leaves and interesting trunk and branch forms.

Snap Dragons, because you can make them talk

Mexican heather

Paulownia Tomentosa.

The Thorny Silk Floss tree has these unusual spines. There are also magnificent orchid like flowers and pod shaped fruits. It originated in South America.

American Sycamore.

A lane of gingkos in their vivid fall color:

Hibiscus, Japanese Maple, Smoke Tree, any sort of weeping tree, yew trees, jade plants, quince bush, pink jasmine bush.

Good choices R30.

The kind of tree that offers shade when strangers go by.

I love the look of birch trees. And I have a few sentimental favorites from the house I grew up in, like a locust treet.

Also, the Callery Tree, which always smells like a freshly blown load for a few weeks in spring.

The one I like least is the Ivanka fly trap....

I love tulip trees and magnolia trees. So pretty.

I'm a fan of the majestic White Oak. My favorite flower would be a climbing yellow rosebush.

I think the Southern Magnolia is a magnificent tree,. In the late 70s, we had a very severe freeze in Ohio, with temperatures plummeting to 25-F. The Ohio River froze over, and people were driving across it, Most of the Southern Magnolias in Cincinnati were killed but a few survived. There's a tree in my local cemetery, that survived the freezes, unblemished. The cemetery has trade-marked it, and has been propagating it. It's considered the hardiest magnolia in the world,

I'm partial to the northern catalpa. It can survive southern Canadian winters yet it looks sub-tropical with its large leaves and orchid-like flowers.

Black pearl pepper -- the patron plant of Goths.

Penis fly trap

Damn autocorrect, lol that was funny. VENUS

Cheryl’s Bush

The Mariposa Lillies, rare and spectacular wildflowers native to the American West. I go looking for them in spring and early summer, which BTW is as good an excuse to get out of the house and go hiking as any. Some are low to the ground, some stand proudly on single stalks two or three feet high, all are beautiful, and some are ridiculously elaborate, with multiple colors and hair on the petals and whatnot.

Butterfly Mariposa at link, a flower I've seen in person on the slopes of Mount Diablo. It'd be a silly name for a flower as "mariposa" means butterfly in Spanish, but they're such lovely flowers what the hell.

Old Redwoods and Cannabis Sativa.

R41 Don't put your dick in that.

Foxgloves(Digitalis) Beautiful, delicate and deadly.

It's difficult to beat a Sugar Maple for spectacular Autumn colors.

Any plant that is particularly attractive to butterflies and bees. I live in Philadelphia, so I gave up long ago on enticing hummingbirds to my garden. Last time I saw any was on a trip to Maine, you can hear the little lovelies, before you even see them.

Terri Schiavo

Weeping Willow

Sequoia

[quote]Don't put your dick in that.

Don't knock it til you've tried it, Miss r46.

California redwoods

Paperbark Maple

The green leaves turn red in the fall, with some yellow variation.

As long as it's got wood, I am so there.

Chinese snowball bush.

The California Buckeye.

Or as I call them, "Penis Trees"!

Because in spring, they have dick-shaped flowers.

Jacaranda trees. Transplanted natives to Los Angeles, and purple alien beauty.

Jacarandas are gorgeous. So rare to see that shade of blue/purple in nature.

The Joshua Tree in snow is a sparse beauty.

R10, when I looked at your photo, I wanted to put on my petticoat and scheme to win over some man named Ashley.

R60, you forgot to sign your post: L. Graham.

I'm quite partial to wood.

Japanese iris petals trembling in a breeze make me feel full of gratitude.

Bougainvillea in bloom electrify me.

Banisteriopsis caapi and psychotria viridis 🤯💥💫☄️🌈✨✨✨

Arc-en-ciel waterlily flowers.

Chinese money plant leaves.

These are a few of my favorite things.

Angel Trumpet Tree

In my best Katherine Hepburn voice....”lilacs”.

Golden chain trees, particularly when grown like this and underplanted with pink or violet flowers for contrast.

R66, very pretty.

poplar trees in the wind

So many beautiful trees and plants here. Great thread.

Saw a great little documentary on Bonsai over Xmas. I’ve always been intrigued but now I’m getting on in years I think I’m going to make the plunge.

Forest Pansy Redbud tree.

It grows wider than a regular redbud, and its summer leaves are red-purple.

Copper Beech tree, always a favorite of my mother.

Orange Maple for foliage.

Otherwise, Weeping Willow.

Get both at Boston's Public Garden.

And here's the weeping willow.

The Larch.

I love flowering cherries clustered together like a pink or white cloud, or especially a single weeping cherry tree standing alone like a poem. The juxtaposition of the “sad” structure with happy pink delicate blossoms is stunning to me.

Italian Stone Pine.

Fig tree.

[quote]poplar trees in the wind

If they're so popular, why did someone leave them out in the wind?

The Oregon White Oak. We had them growing around our home and I thought of them as giant guards at night and friends during the summer because they provided shade. Though I wasn't all that excited when it came time to rake leaves in the fall. Our grandfather had these trees in his yard but thankfully I didn't have to rake those. His home is now gone to make way for a golf course but many of his trees are still standing.

R29, where is that?

I have a weakness for honeysuckle. The smell reminds me of my childhood.

Bitches, I give you the Saucer Magnolia.

The Saucer Magnolia is an understory tree, most often used as a landscape specimen. (Or as multiple landscape specimenz.)

It's also as gay as pink ink, blooming profusely with fluffy pink beautiful flowers that look like something Zsa Zsa Gabor would wear around the house.

Ugh. With Link.

Stunning.

For indoor plants, I love Fiddle Leaf Figs. I have 3 and they are the easiest, low-maintenance plants on earth to grow if they get the right light.

R85, I have one in our bathroom and love it. I do have to cut it back so that it bushes out or at least splits into two branches. Do you do that? It takes more time than I'd like to sprout the new multiple branches but is so worth it long-term, because I end up with a more bushy tree instead of one with only a few tall branches. Any thoughts or tips?

"Purple Robe" locust tree (Robinia pseudoacacia X ambigua "Purple Robe") is a fast-growing, very easy to grow deciduous tree that will grow anywhere in the continental United States. In spring (and sometimes hanging on into summer) are purple-pink flowers hanging down in clusters, profusely all over the tree, with a light sweet frangrance.

Methuselah is the world's oldest known single tree. It is a bristlecone pine (pinus longaeva) growing in the White Mountains of eastern California. It is in the Schulman Grove of the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, within the Inyo National Forest. It is not identified on the trail, to protect it from potential vandals. It is 4,851 years old.

Rainbow Eucalyptus (eucalyptus deglupta), famous for its multi-colored bark during the summer months. These trees are native to the Philippines, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

Giant Sequoia (sequoiadendron giganteum) is the largest species of tree. The General Sherman (shown here), a giant sequoia in Sequoia National Park in California, is the largest tree in the world by volume. It is not the tallest tree in the world, however. The tallest tree is Hyperion, a coast redwood (sequoia sempervirens) in Redwood National Park in California.

Dragon Blood Tree

Empress trees (Paulownia tomentosa)

Naked Man Orchid (orchis italica)

Mimosa trees

Lotuses are gorgeous and glorious. I understand why Asian and Ancient Egyptian cultures depicted them for eons.

Omg, R34! I lived in Dubai for a few years some time ago and there was a neighborhood by the beach with many of those trees. The smell of cum there was overpowering. I thought I just had this weird sensitivity to the smell of those trees. I used to say to friends Here are the cum trees of Dubai. They looked at me like I was nuts.

R86, I have seen this tree in two different forms - either one trunk or multiple trunks. My friend bought two that were single trunks for her dining room, but my figs are all multiple trunks and live my sunroom and living room. Yes, I do have to cut my figs back every year as they get so big by summer that they almost get too heavy and come close to breaking themselves due to the added "weight". The good news is that you can prune them (just look up youtube videos to find out where to cut) and if you "root" the branches in a vessel of water (make sure that you do do in the same room/light of course) - a month later they have plenty of roots and are ready to plant. I just plant and give my cuttings to friends, but they do very well once planted. I fertilize my figs - but only from May to September (very limited fertilizer actually) and only every two weeks (you only want to drown them, drain them etc. every two weeks anyway). This plant is beautiful, easy to care for and usually resistant to many pathogens if not already infected when purchased. Love these guys!

Baobab trees - Africa's "tree of life".

I was surrounded by them when I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Africa.

Monterey pines - they line the coast of Monterey Bay.

La Peppermint Camellia

White dogwoods are a common understory tree here, but there was a pink dogwood up the street from our house that always caused my mother to slow down and admire it when in full bloom:

r80: Napa Valley, Ithink

[quote]Paulownia Tomentosa.

I had one at my first house. The leaves were massive but unfortunately I never got many flowers out of it. It also grew like a weed, I finally had to take it down because the canopy started spreading over my neighbor's roof.

R89 - R95 -- gorgeous!

My own.

I love the coloring of Osiria roses.

I have one of those R100 — it’s blooming now, hardiness zone 8A.

Black mondo grass.

cedar, with snow falling

baobab

pines of rome

italian cypresses

topiary

groomed and shadowless

Traveler Palm