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A tree that I've never seen before is blooming profusely in the moist area just below Pachalka Spring

03847-pachalka-spring.jpg There it is, Pachalka Spring, bubbling up from a pipe in the middle of the yerba mansa patchThumbnailsThe blossoms on this tree look almost like the flowers of a Palmer's penstemon; hummingbirds probably love theseThere it is, Pachalka Spring, bubbling up from a pipe in the middle of the yerba mansa patchThumbnailsThe blossoms on this tree look almost like the flowers of a Palmer's penstemon; hummingbirds probably love theseThere it is, Pachalka Spring, bubbling up from a pipe in the middle of the yerba mansa patchThumbnailsThe blossoms on this tree look almost like the flowers of a Palmer's penstemon; hummingbirds probably love theseThere it is, Pachalka Spring, bubbling up from a pipe in the middle of the yerba mansa patchThumbnailsThe blossoms on this tree look almost like the flowers of a Palmer's penstemon; hummingbirds probably love theseThere it is, Pachalka Spring, bubbling up from a pipe in the middle of the yerba mansa patchThumbnailsThe blossoms on this tree look almost like the flowers of a Palmer's penstemon; hummingbirds probably love theseThere it is, Pachalka Spring, bubbling up from a pipe in the middle of the yerba mansa patchThumbnailsThe blossoms on this tree look almost like the flowers of a Palmer's penstemon; hummingbirds probably love these

The twisted trunk of the tree is vaguely manzanita- or madrone-like, but the leaves don't look like either of those trees.