Red-Tipped Photinia (Photinia x fraseri) as a tree. Red-tipped photinias (Photinia x fraseri) are in bloom in the Willamette Valley. While I think of them as useful evergreen hedging plants, in my neighborhood they are small trees. I assume they were planted as accent shrubs or hedges and then the owners allowed them (by choice or default) to grow as trees. Their small white flowers are insignificant but prolific and appear pink against the plant's new red foliage. The flowe