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Smallish tree with pale yellow flowers/catkins?

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Passthebiscuittin · 17/03/2017 20:22

Around us (north Oxfordshire/bucks) I've just noticed lots of very pretty trees with pale yellow flowers or perhaps catkins come out in big hedges or the odd garden. Any ideas? I wondered if they were willows - but they are upright rather than weeping . . . I would love to have one in our garden if I could only work out what they were!!

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PhilODox · 17/03/2017 20:30

Hazels have catkins, they're quite twisty trunks though. Very interesting in a garden.
Forsythia is upright with yellow flowers just bloomed in last week. I love them. They have very reddy-brown stems, quite twiggy, not thick like trunks.

AstrantiaMajor · 17/03/2017 20:42

Possibly Mimosa. That is flower at present

LapdanceShoeshine · 17/03/2017 20:46

There are other willow varieties too. If you google images of trees with catkins you might spot yours Smile

Forsythia is a strong yellow rather than pale.

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Passthebiscuittin · 18/03/2017 13:23

Thanks - no forsythia is much brighter! With a bit more time on my hands I had a good search and I think it may be the male catkins on a Salix caprea. I'll try and track one down!

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