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Can you identify this tree?

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Jeadorelalabrador · 23/07/2026 16:15

Awful photo and label blank - can anyone identify this? Thanks in advance

Can you identify this tree?
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Agapornis · 23/07/2026 16:27

We'll need a photo :)
(unless it hasn't been approved yet)

Jeadorelalabrador · 23/07/2026 16:38

It said under review

Can you identify this tree?
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Jeadorelalabrador · 23/07/2026 16:38

@Agapornis it’s waiting for approval

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Myfridgeiscool · 23/07/2026 16:40

In the meantime: what shape are the leaves, what colour is the bark, what texture is the bark.

Myfridgeiscool · 23/07/2026 17:25

Have you got any other photos!
I'm going for Pear tree from that pic.

minipie · 23/07/2026 17:27

Could we have closer / sharper pics of the leaves and bark pls

orangehandles · 23/07/2026 19:49

Is there absolutely nothing on the plant label at all? Even a few faded letters might help.

Jeadorelalabrador · 23/07/2026 19:57

pictures are rubbish and this is as close as I can get - sorry

Can you identify this tree?
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Leavesandthings · 23/07/2026 19:58

Crush and smell a leaf to determine if it's bay, it looks a bit like it.
It is not a good photo though! Could be many things
There is a free app called PlantNet you can use to identify plants.

sulon · 23/07/2026 20:00

Google lens says it’s a young avocado tree

ErrolTheDragon · 23/07/2026 20:15

sulon · 23/07/2026 20:00

Google lens says it’s a young avocado tree

I don’t know what it is but I’m sure it’s not that. (I’ve got a couple grown from stones.)

Shedmistress · 23/07/2026 20:16

Why do you want to know?

Agapornis · 24/07/2026 11:17

Whose fence are you sneakily leaning over to take this, and why do you want to know Grin

Agree with @Myfridgeiscool that it might be a pear.

letshavetea · 24/07/2026 11:22

Download PlantNet app and you can identify it yourself with a photo.

InMySpareTime · 24/07/2026 12:47

Just ask whoever’s garden that is if you can read the attached label. Or get a better camera with a zoom function and decent definition. Only you know which of those is easier for you.

Jeadorelalabrador · 24/07/2026 21:29

Agapornis · 24/07/2026 11:17

Whose fence are you sneakily leaning over to take this, and why do you want to know Grin

Agree with @Myfridgeiscool that it might be a pear.

It’s a public area newly planted on, looks nice but the label was blank and some large bushes in the way and I didn’t want to climb on anything and a fence belonging to someone else. So tried to angle it round higher up . It is truly a terrible picture. Never mind!

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Shedmistress · 24/07/2026 22:28

But why do you want to know?

Agapornis · 24/07/2026 22:40

Well if your aim is that you'd like to grow something that looks similar - get a pear tree. I planted mine last year and it looks similar. This year I'll have my first harvest - a single pear Grin

Jeadorelalabrador · 25/07/2026 10:20

Shedmistress · 24/07/2026 22:28

But why do you want to know?

Why does anyone want to grow anything?

Because I liked it 🙄 and if it wasn’t going to grow into a 20 metre high tree I have a space in the middle of my front lawn where I am thinking of putting a tree and researching different types. I already have a list of possibilities so far and I would add this to it. Is that ok or do I need more reasons?

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Jeadorelalabrador · 25/07/2026 10:21

Agapornis · 24/07/2026 22:40

Well if your aim is that you'd like to grow something that looks similar - get a pear tree. I planted mine last year and it looks similar. This year I'll have my first harvest - a single pear Grin

Thanks I might do this the space I have is right in the middle of an oval shaped front lawn so need to research pruning etc as I don’t want a huge monster and want it look at roots although it will be over 5 m from the house.

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Shedmistress · 25/07/2026 10:29

Jeadorelalabrador · 25/07/2026 10:20

Why does anyone want to grow anything?

Because I liked it 🙄 and if it wasn’t going to grow into a 20 metre high tree I have a space in the middle of my front lawn where I am thinking of putting a tree and researching different types. I already have a list of possibilities so far and I would add this to it. Is that ok or do I need more reasons?

I ask because as an ex professional gardener I might offer tree advice but if you are going to be snitty then I'll leave it at that.

stayathomegardener · 25/07/2026 11:01

If you can get closer do the leaves feel felty?
Perhaps a young Catalpa bignonioides?
Hardy nowadays down South.

stayathomegardener · 25/07/2026 11:05

Or a lime tree Tillea? Almost impossible to identify correctly on that photo although I can say what it isn’t for example not oak, ash, cherry, birch, beech, hornbeam etc.

Jeadorelalabrador · 25/07/2026 12:25

stayathomegardener · 25/07/2026 11:05

Or a lime tree Tillea? Almost impossible to identify correctly on that photo although I can say what it isn’t for example not oak, ash, cherry, birch, beech, hornbeam etc.

Yes as I didn’t recognise it I thought cherry nope, beech nope, oak nope and so on.

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orangehandles · 25/07/2026 12:29

It's not a lime, neither large nor small-leaved. They have heart-shaped leaves.

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