Tree ID please

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Does anyone know what this tree is. It’s big. Taller than the house. It flowers once every few years in august. Photos attached.

Close up of leaves

Fallen petals

No idea but hoping someone comes along with the name of a FREE identity app that actually works as I'm struggling to find one.

another one of the flowers. It’s multi stemmed smooth bark

I don’t think any really work since all they do is scan the internet for similar images

Another of leaves

Is it evergreen?

Might be some type of magnolia.

Like this https://www.rhsplants.co.uk/plants/_/magnolia-grandiflora/classid.4124/

It is evergreen

Us it eucryphia nymansis....

Looks likely.

Those serrated leaf edges do not fit with a magnolia.

yes! I think it might be! Thank you so much

Nor do the number of petals, nor the structure of the centre of the flower. I’d suggest Eucryphia, with 4 petals

I agree it’s a Eucryphia, I inherited one in my garden. It’s a joy every summer.

Mine is in woodland and currently doesn’t get enough light so it doesn’t always flower. When it does it is stunning. It was mature when we bought the house almost twenty years ago.

Yes mine is about 50-60 years old, growing in a sloping garden near the coast with a mild, but wet climate. It would have been planted when the new garden was landscaped. They are quite rare, I think.