Dogwoods have moderate-sized (1.5-2.5" across) and flat flowers w/ 4 petals on each flower. Cherry are small little clusters of flowers, and there are both normal and weeping varieties. Magnolias are larger flowers, size of a fist or bigger, each of the many petals in a flower are 2-3 inches long. All of these three can come in white and/or pink and the flowers bloom in the spring, fall off, and then the leaves come out once the flowers are gone.
Where I last lived there was a cherry tree across the street that on the left side was weeping and on the right side was not. It must have been a graft or something like that. That's how they propagate seedless fruit trees and vines, they graft branches onto the trunks of other varieties or species that *do* propagate via seeds, so it's not impossible they could do that with cherry blossoms, but it's surprising someone would bother in a low-income urban area. But then again, maybe the tree was older than the low-income nature of the neighborhood.
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Red-blossom: http://www.barnwellcountryparkfriends.org.uk/images/red_blossom_15cm.jpg
Redbud tree: http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/IMAGES/Oklahoma/Eastern-Redbud-tree.jpg
They look very similar. However the size of the flowers makes me leans towards Red-Blossom.
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Dogwoods have moderate-sized (1.5-2.5" across) and flat flowers w/ 4 petals on each flower. Cherry are small little clusters of flowers, and there are both normal and weeping varieties. Magnolias are larger flowers, size of a fist or bigger, each of the many petals in a flower are 2-3 inches long. All of these three can come in white and/or pink and the flowers bloom in the spring, fall off, and then the leaves come out once the flowers are gone.
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