cherry laurel vs flowering tree

cherry laurel and flowering tree both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cherry laurel	Yes	No	No	No
flowering tree	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, flowering tree is a hypernym of cherry laurel; that is, flowering tree is a word with a broader meaning than cherry laurel:

Other hypernyms of cherry laurel include angiospermous tree.

cherry laurel (noun)	flowering tree (noun)
frequently cultivated Eurasian evergreen shrub or small tree having showy clusters of white flowers and glossy foliage and yielding oil similar to bitter almond oil	any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary
small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States