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Can anyone identify a tree for me please?

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MirandaWest · 18/03/2015 20:03

I've recently moved house and am wondering what one of the trees in the garden is. It's the larger deciduous tree in the photo - I know the smaller one is a silver birch. Thank you :)

Can anyone identify a tree for me please?
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JiltedJohnsJulie · 18/03/2015 20:13

Might be easier when the leaves come out Smile

SirVixofVixHall · 18/03/2015 20:24

Really impossible to say from that. Could be an ash. How tall is it, roughly? The leaves should be out soon and then you will be able to identify it. Also a closer pic of it would help.

MirandaWest · 18/03/2015 20:43

I'll do a closer picture in the daytime :) I realise leaves would help but I am impatient Grin

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Pannacotta · 18/03/2015 20:47

Perhaps Beech but hard to tell from that photo...

echt · 19/03/2015 05:59

A closer pic of the bark and a twig to show the buds would help.

CuttedUpPear · 19/03/2015 07:27

Yes more pics please

PeaceOfWildThings · 19/03/2015 07:35

There might be dead leaf multch under the tree that would help a lot....chestnut, beech, maybe oak (I can hear my dad's voice telling me off pointing out the way the trunk splits for that one).

RustyBear · 19/03/2015 07:38

www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/learn/children-and-families/nature-detectives/how-to-identify-trees-in-winter/

Woodland trust page, with link to a twig and bud ID sheet.

AddToBasket · 19/03/2015 07:43

It is a sycamore.

PeaceOfWildThings · 19/03/2015 07:45

AddToBasket please share your classification process, for those of us who have forgotten/don't know.

AddToBasket · 19/03/2015 16:28

I asked my DH (tree man). Just told me he'd bet our house on it. I've explained that won't be necessary. Grin

PeaceOfWildThings · 19/03/2015 16:29

But why???? How does he know?

MirandaWest · 19/03/2015 17:04

I don't want any houses being bet on the tree Grin. I have some more photos :)

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MirandaWest · 19/03/2015 17:06

Some close ups of the tree :)

Can anyone identify a tree for me please?
Can anyone identify a tree for me please?
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PeaceOfWildThings · 19/03/2015 17:08

Any leaves? Amy sycamore seeds?

Notrevealingmyidentity · 19/03/2015 17:09

I think it mighty be a sycamore too but I wouldn't like to bet without more photos.

MirandaWest · 19/03/2015 17:14

My photos haven't appeared....

Can anyone identify a tree for me please?
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MirandaWest · 19/03/2015 17:15

Close up of a branch

Can anyone identify a tree for me please?
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AddToBasket · 19/03/2015 19:05

He's pretty adamant and now quite exercised about the whole thing. He just told me to go outside, photograph a sycamore and post it here. I've been saved by the dark Hmm Smile

PeaceOfWildThings · 19/03/2015 19:23

I'm not arguing with him. My day would have identified it from the first photo (the same way he could identify birds by their calls). I'd just like to be reminded what about that first photo says it has to be a sycamore, and not another type of tree.

PeaceOfWildThings · 19/03/2015 19:23

^dad, not day.

Notrevealingmyidentity · 22/03/2015 17:02

The shape of the tree, the bark and the knot holes in the trunk for me ID it as a sycamore. I thought from the first photo but wanted to see the second close up to be sure.

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