Anybody know what this tree is?

[Qw3rk13]

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Plant app is saying it’s a Japanese Flowering Cherry tree.

@SproutClout

Plant app is saying it’s a Japanese Flowering Cherry tree.

Plant app is wrong

Some kind of an Acer ??

That bud says sycamore. The leaves appear to be lobed (which absolutely rules out flowering cherry), the colour, drooping and colour of bark would all be right for sycamore

Sycamore

There’s also a flower bud there, a pendant raceme, also right for sycamore. And very wrong for flowering cherry, which has clusters of much bigger flowers.

Good demonstration of why you should never accept the answer from an app without a good deal of further checking.

It looks more like some kind of chestnut to me. There are reddish leaved versions like the Chinese chestnut, aesculus chinensis.

Looks like a sycamore to me.

@SarahMused

It looks more like some kind of chestnut to me. There are reddish leaved versions like the Chinese chestnut, aesculus chinensis.

I see where you're coming from, but if it were Aesculus chinensis, the raceme would be vertical not dangling, and isn't the bud too slim?

I don't think the colour reflects the final colour of the leaves. many plants have a different colour for their emerging leaves, eg Amelenchire, and, of course, sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus)

I think it's Acer Pseudoplatanus Brilliantissimum - the shrimp leaved sycamore.
It's usually top-grafted, so the trunk won't grow any taller - only the crown will develop slowly over several years.
It's a beautiful tree (I had one) with shrimp coloured leaves in the spring turning a lovely lime green in summer, and yellow in autumn.

It's suitable for a smaller garden as it won't grow the huge size of a common sycamore. It's easy to prune to size but I found it rarely needed it. Very reliable.

www.mailordertrees.co.uk/products/acer-brilliantissimum-shrimp-leaved-sycamore-tree

Brambleberries I think you’re right. Thankyou so much.

@Qw3rk13

Brambleberries I think you’re right. Thankyou so much.

Even common sycamore has new leaves that colour. So don’t get your hopes up too high

Yes, it's a possible that it's a common sycamore.
If it's a shrimp-leaved sycamore you should be able to see the graft at the top of the trunk...

If its a common sycamore you'll probably want it gone - they get huge and grow very fast..and you'll also find tenacious little brothers and sisters popping up everywhere. A nearby mature sycamore would be a giveaway...not heard of a shrimp leaved sycamore though, sounds nice!

Been here 13 years and it’s hardly grown so don’t think it’s the common sycamore.

Oh, that doesn't sound like common sycamore then!

Acer japonicus brilliantisimum

'Brilliantissimum' is not a cultivar of Acer Japonicum.

It is an ornamental variety of Acer pseudoplatanus which is the sycamore; and what people correctly said it was four years ago when the thread was started.🙂