Tree identification.

[Aurea]

Sorry - another sandy thread......

We have a tree in our garden shoved up against a granite rubble wall. Can someone please identify it as we need to know how big it will get. It may possibly be an ash? At the moment it's about 4-5metres high.

Thanks!

*similar, not sandy.

The woodland trust has an excellent free tree identification app.

Goat willow.

Definitely not an ash, nor a goat willow - the leaf veins are parallel so it rules those two out. It could be some species of Cornus (dogwood) with those characteristic veins and leaves in opposite pairs, in which case it's probably near its limit. There are other trees with similar veins and opposite leaves.

On the other hand, what I'm seeing as opposite leaves may be opposite leaflets in a compound leaf, which would make it something else. Can you see tiny buds in the angle in the axil - where the leaf meets the stem? - if so, then that's a leaf not a leaflet. If it's a compound leaf (like an ash tree has), there won't be a little bud at the base of each leaflet, only where the central stem of the leaf meets the branch. In either case, a close up of a single leaf would be useful.

On the other hand ... have you got two things there? I'm not sure the parallel veined leaves belong to the trunk, and the trunk could indeed be goat willow. If you look in the close up of the leaves, the parallel veined leaves are mainly towards the bottom R corner, and are the ones I can see clearly, but perhaps the leaves towards the top L have conventional branched veins and are the leaves belonging to the trunk. If it is a goat willow, then if you wanted to keep it, you could get it pollarded.

The trunk is wrong for ash, which has much smoother bark,

Thank you all!

I tried the woodland trust tree checker and it's inconclusive, sadly.

Here are some more photos of it in close up and in situ.

Thanks!

And another

It's goat willow. That grey bark/lenticel mischief is that all over. As are the leaves. There's some Cornus in one of the pics too though.