Ah, so you are suggesting that the blossoms are possitioned wrong...re-examining the photo and I see what you mean.... I noticed in some of Cherokees pics there were few leaves, but it didn't occur to me it was due to the early blossoms....do the berries turn red after the flower goes away? Are they always red? My folks live on a lot that has dozens of them...and there were two in the front yard where I grew up....but I've not paid them any attention since I was a child, since they were so common to me those days....I think they are beautiful trees (wife hates them for some reason, though) eric