These are flowers of a Chinese fringetree (Chionanthus retusus). Before fully open, they looked to me like aliens floating in the air (2nd photo). The black fruits it produces in autumn (5th photo) are also beautiful although they're inedible and avoided even by birds.
The Chinese fringetree has male and hermaphrodite trees, the same as the Japanese ternstroemia (Ternstroemia gymnanthera). I did research to find out the sex of the tree but in vain.
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