Trees That Bloom White Flowers in the Winter

Most trees take the winter off with bare branches and not a leaf in sight never mind flowers.  Winter blooming trees may be cold sensitive and their flowers curl up tightly in a bud when it's too cold.  Some trees bloom in winter to take advantage of less competition for pollinators.  There aren't many that bloom in white or in the winter.  Here are a selected few.

Loquat produces orange fruit from white flowers that bloom between December and the end of February.  The clusters of creamy white flowers are nestled against the dark green large evergreen leaves.  Clusters contain between 30 to 100 blossoms.  The tree will eventually reach 30 feet tall.  The fruit is oval shaped and between one to two inches long.  The taste is sweet and tart. The loquat was thought to originally be imported from Japan and China. 

Witchhazel grows to 15 feet tall and has flowers with long slender petals in off white, red or yellow.  It blossoms in January to about the middle of February.  Most varieties are fragrant, but not all.  Check if the variety you're considered is scented if that's what you want.  It's not unusual to see the blossoms curled up and frozen under ice and then stretch out their petals after a thaw.