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Can anyone identify this tree for me. It is a beautiful flowering tree with white blooms. It has many seedlings coming up under this tree. I dug one up that was about 5 feet tall and hope it will make it. I had to cut some of the root away to get it up. The underside of the stem are reddish color.
Sure looks like blackhaw viburnum (Viburnum prunifolium). Your last flower picture looks like there is an unopened grayish bud right below the flower head.
The gray bud will indicate blackhaw viburnum. If that plant had rusty brown dormant buds, that would indicate rusty blackhaw viburnum (Viburnum rufidulum). Rusty blackhaw usually has much glossier thicker darker green foliage as well. Otherwise, the two species are pretty hard to tell apart. They do bloom at slightly different times, with blackhaw going first, typically.
Both of these species sucker profusely, so you may be trying to transplant a sucker instead of an actual separate seedling plant. Both of these species are relatively easy to grow from seed, too.
VirburnumValley
I think you are right about it being a Vervurnum too. I hope what I dug up is not a sucker. It was about four feet tall. Does that mean if it is a sucker it will not bloom. I am pretty dumb to these things.
Thanks everyone for the help. I appreciate it very much. I am go glad to be able to get on here and get help that I badly need. LOL. I plant a lot of things and not exactly sure if I am doing the right thing but at least I try. I am working with some really had soil too. I am going to rent a tiller this weekend and give it a try and see if I can handle it before I purchase one. This soil is like digging into bricks. I have almost 2 acres and have not trees at all so everything just about burns up on me.
How can I tell if I have planted a sucker or not. I did have to cut it away from some roots to get it out of the ground.
It doesn't necessarily matter if it was a sucker, except that you may have a lower rate of success versus transplanting a whole plant (seedling).
A sucker is the growth from a dormant or adventitious bud along the length of a plant's root system. I'm not a botanist or biologist, so those terms may not be precise but I think that they are accurate in describing what is happening. So, when you dig up a sucker, you are getting the top with a length of root that emanated from the parent plant and extends past the sucker growth which is above ground. This is not much of a root system for the sucker to survive off of, once you've moved it. Some plants are pretty tough at surviving even the worst of insults, so your viburnum may go on and grow anyway. Sumac, elderberry, some of the shrubby dogwoods, lilacs - there are several species that can be propagated this way.
Let us know how it all works for you. Take pictures of the process next time, and we can all learn from your efforts.
Thanks VerburnumValley I will let you know how it does. I dug it up last week and it is still doing well. It had a lot of roots on it. Had to dig pretty deep to get it up and the tree was pretty large. Hoping it will make it.
