Google says it's a flowering dogwood.
I put my finger on the image of the tree and held it there. A menu popped up. One of the options was Search Image with Google Lens. I clicked that. It got all sparkly while Google pondered, and it came back with the answer. New technology, indeed!
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I agree, it's not a mimosa. The blossoms do not have that "fan" appearance that mimosas have. Wish we could get a close-up. Have never seen a pink Bradford pear, is there such a thing?
It grows all over ours too and I love it. I'd never seen it before I moved here. I especially love it bc my late MIL's favorite church song was "Beautiful Star of Bethlehem." At first we only had a few but now we have hundreds! Maybe thousands!
:barnie I hereby decree that from henceforth and forevermore, everyone shall identify their flowers by their common name, and I don't mean, "this is George!" There are so many beautiful flowers here, some exotic or just not familiar to me, and I can't plant them if I don't know what they are...
That might have been it. He doesn't live there any more but maybe he remembers. I'll ask him. Anyway, that's a beautiful tree you posted, and thank you for sharing the story of its travels! ❤️