To Blossom is To Bloom

I was thinking of the difference between the words flowers, blossoms, and blooms.   It seems like we wouldn't say "Look at that rose blossom".  Instead, we might say "Look at the rose blooming".   We think of fruit trees - apples, cherries, plums, almonds, peaches, etc as having blossoms, being blossom trees, and blossoming in the spring.  One site says that blossoms don't flower, but flowers do blossom. That seemed poetic indeed. Blooming seems to occur with flowers/flowering plants.   It doesn't seem typical to comment that the orchard is blooming.  We would comment that the roses are blooming.  These differences seem subtle and tricky, and refer to the literal meaning of flower, blossom and bloom.  To continue with the literal meaning, this comes from Collins English Dictionary for bloom.   1. countable noun A bloom is the flower on a plant. [literary , technical] ...the sweet fragrance of the white blooms. Harry carefully picked the bloom. Synonyms: flower, bud, blossom    2. in bloom 3. verb When a plant or tree blooms, it produces flowers. When a flower blooms, it opens. This plant blooms between May and June.  Synonyms: flower, blossom, open, bud    What about these distinctions between the words?  The Scrabble score for each of these words: blossom is 61 points - blossoming is 65 points bloom is 9 points - blooming is 63 points flower is 12 points - flowering is 66 points Our fantasy flowers in bloom today are lilies.