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27-04-2006, 08:05 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | | Help Please! ID needed
Hi,
I am new on here and this is my very first post. I cycle to work every day, and I have been puzzling over this really strong heady scent that I smell every Spring. Today for the first time I identified the source of the smell. It is a tree, really tall, with small pointed leaves that have a sticky residue and an overwhelmingly sweet scent. I have looked on the internet and in my tree book; but so far nothing that matches.
The tree does not appear to be flowering. I don't often see them. Not sure that it is very common, but I would love to know what it is.
thanks for any help or suggestions 
Fay |
27-04-2006, 08:30 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: London
Posts: 3,607
| | | Re: Help Please! ID needed
Probably some sort of Balsam-poplar. The scent comes from the unfurling leaves. |
27-04-2006, 09:28 PM
|  | Moderator | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
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| | | Re: Help Please! ID needed
Welcome to WAB Fay, I've no idea what the tree may be others will..  |
28-04-2006, 06:40 AM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 4
| | | Re: Help Please! ID needed
Tigg and Glammy, thanks a lot for your replies/welcome. I shall have another look at the books and check out a balsam Poplar. The tree was certainly very tall.
Fay |
28-04-2006, 08:55 AM
|  | Frozen | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: N.E. Lincolnshire
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| | | Re: Help Please! ID needed
Hello Fay, and a very warm welcome to WAB. Hope to hear more from you |
28-04-2006, 05:19 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 4
| | | Re: Help Please! ID needed
Thanks again everyone. Following a bit of research it looks like it is a Western Balsam Poplar, which has a sticky secretion with a heady scented smell.
I don't think I would have found out without your help! |
28-04-2006, 05:27 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Crawley,Sussex
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Thought i would just say hello also |
28-04-2006, 05:41 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.E.SOMERSET
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| | | Re: Help Please! ID needed
Hello,Fay the tree that is giving off a heady scent at the moment near me is a laurel like tree with what appears at a distance to be white candles of flowers I have no idea what it is but just enjoy it!,your poplar is a new one on me but it sounds great welcome to the site
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29-04-2006, 10:42 AM
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thanks for the welcome Mark. Nightshade, I have really enjoyed the scent of the poplar for several years now, but felt intruiged enough to find out what it was. For a while I couldn't even track down which shrub or bush was giving off the scent. I didn't realise it was a tree until a few days ago! | | |
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