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Growing => Identification => Topic started by: lord flynn on November 02, 2013, 11:09:36 am
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can anyone help with this please?
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How big is it? Have you any overall shots? Has it flowered? It looks a little bit like a buddleja from the texture but a rounder leaf.
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hi-its not a buddleia. Its about 18ft high. Leaves are quite rubbery and small-will try and get a better shot later but there's this one
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Has it had any berries or catkins?
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only been here 4 weeks-nothing to see fruit wise but it is a very exposed spot.
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Hi,
The leaves look quite similar to the ones on my plum tree, so it may be some sort of plum.
Regards
Sue
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Lord Flynn - I think you might need to wait until next spring to work out what it is. The new growth and spring behaviour will give you more information than you have at the moment. The other thing to do is to see if any of your neighbours have one and ask them what it is!
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thanks-am hoping for plum or damson :) don't have any neighbours lol *smug* but there is a cherry and an apple tree so maybe it makes sense that there might be a plum tree. None of them look in great nick though-they've been planted in a very boggy spot.
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The bark does look fruit treeish. From the first photo, I thought the leaf was much bigger than it looks in the second so it may be plum. They tend to have quite little leaves. Worth planting a quince if it's a boggy spot - they like it boggy (apparently). Oooh, actually maybe it is a quince? They do have bigger leaves:
http://www.123rf.com/photo_10996472_leaves-from-trees-and-plants.html (http://www.123rf.com/photo_10996472_leaves-from-trees-and-plants.html)
H
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My money is on wild plum, maybe cherry plum or damson. Not a quince - well, not like my quince ;D
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I think it might be a willow.
Possibly a hybrid with a goat willow, willows very freely hybridize and do tend to crop up wherever there is a wet spot. If you cut a branch and you can peel of the bark relatively easily it is definetly a willow. Lookiing at the way thye leaves are attached to the stem it does not look like a plum. You will know by spring, if it is a willow you will get nice catkins or fury paws.
DD
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My first thought was grey willow but it's possibly a cherry. Can you post a closer picture of the bark, please?
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oh, interesting-wasn't expecting that! there is a willow a bit further along. I will try and get better pics later-its snowing atm so have fed everything and come back inside!
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Have you worked it out yet??
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Eucalyptus!
Regen
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I really don't think its a eucalyptus :)
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Try
http://www.british-wild-flowers.co.uk/W-Flowers/Willow,%20Goat.htm (http://www.british-wild-flowers.co.uk/W-Flowers/Willow,%20Goat.htm)
I was having doubts about one of mine which I thought was goat willow but had large buds compared with others, they seem to vary, 'google' goat willow and it comes up with LOTS of images.
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thats a possibility, thankyou! although the Wildlife Trust says it has hairy leaves and this didn't but there does seem to be alot of variation in the google images.
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Willow does hybridise very readily so there is a lot of variation - difficult to accurately depict one species
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I was looking at it today and it does look more like a willow now that the leaves have gone. I didn't know they could hybridise-will let you know in the spring :)
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well, it is a willow :) thanks all.