Your description is too general for me to visualize your tree. Is there others growing in your neighborhood? Maybe you could include a picture or take a sample of foliage and flower to a local nursery. Al

Could it be a chitalpa?
http://ucanr.org/sites/scmg/Plant_of_the_Month/Chitalpa_tashkentensis/

As an intergeneric hybrid, xChitalpa is sterile. That's one of its great assets -- it doesn't produce seed.

I can't visualize the tree either. There are hundreds of trees with seeds like that...need a picture.

Yes a photo of the tree would help.

It sounds like Pussy Willow?? Check link.

Here is a link that might be useful: Pussy Willow

Finally figured out how do do pics. Thanks for all the help!!!!! Still working on rotating the pictures. Sorry!!!

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Jortiz40,
I live in Vista. Post a couple of photos of your tree, close up and a perspective photo, and we can help you out.

Patty S.

Anyone care to venture a guess????

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Too blurry for these old eyes. Upright catkins and alternate entire simple lvs and striations in bark but no other keys to help and too blurry for ID for this old man.

The BH has same undergrad and suggests the Extension Office should pay someone to surf the web to help...

Dan

It looks like a wild or I should say native,willow. It might not even have been planted-just sprouted where it found a wet area one spring.

I'd like to guess willow too, but the pic doesn't show stipules that I can see which is my hesitation...

Dan