laurel cherry vs flowering tree

laurel cherry and flowering tree both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of laurel cherry include angiospermous tree.

laurel cherry (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