Kansas City excellent tree.

This was late in October yet the leaves still looked young, green, and healthy.

 

It was smart to select a color of guywire that would be camouflaged by the tree's backdrop of panels of red granite. Guywires cause trees physical pain.

 

The thing is probably a Cercis reniformis 'Oklahoma,' a/k/a Cercis canadensis var. texensis 'Oklahoma.' Ah, the 'Oklahoma redbud.'

 

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In Kansas City, Missouri, on October 26th, 2014, on the west side of Main Street, south of East 45th Street.

 

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Library of Congress classification ideas:

QK495.L52 Redbud—Pictorial works.

SB435.5 Ornamental trees—United States—Pictorial works.

TA660.S6 Slabs—Pictorial works.

S661.5 Mulching—Pictorial works.

F474.K243 Kansas City (Mo.)—Pictorial works.

Done