Tree Id please

[cherrybee]

I know I should know this but the flowers are so much like many others so I took 3 shots one of the tree itself and 2 different ones of the flower and branches.It was taken on the edge of a woodland trust local wood.

[Ollie]

Looks like a Blackthorn to me CB, Prunus Spinosa. I could be wrong though and probably will be.
Ollie

[cherrybee]

Originally Posted by Ollie

Looks like a Blackthorn to me CB, Prunus Spinosa. I could be wrong though and probably will be.
Ollie

I thought that at first but the branches are quite pale compared to the photos i took of blackthorn(almost black)and also normally the blackthorn rarely grows sa a tree normally a hedge or bush(according to my book anyway) The tree was an awful lot taller than me and the branches were quite low to the ground.

[wildone]

I have always thought that a tree is on a single trunk whereas a bush has multiple stems/trunks; and that height had nothing to do with it.

[Gill Catton]

Well woodland edge can be a bit like a hedge style habitat and blackthorn are particulalry good and colonising adjacent land with saplings which is perhaps what has happened here.
I'm not sure on the definition of what is a bush and what it a tree (though I suspect wildone is right - though coppicing may vause problems here!) I'd agree with the blackthorn vote.

[cherrybee]

Originally Posted by wildone

I have always thought that a tree is on a single trunk whereas a bush has multiple stems/trunks; and that height had nothing to do with it.

I dont know really wildone .This had a trunk and was over 10 feet tall but the branches did come a long way down the trunk.I have been ignorant of wildlife most of my life really never really took an interest in it much before until I came here and you have all helped me.I always thought of a tree as being high and bushes a lot lower. I do know a bush can get quite high but this particular one definately stuck me as a tree.Oh well never mind it was very pretty and the flowers of all these fruit type trees are so similar it is very difficult if you havent the knowledge as some of you on here but I am learning.I think i will have to get someone to come with me to the tree/bush and take a photo of them close to it to get an idea of hight and maybe of the trunk to see if anyone can ID it that way

[wildone]

Cherrybee, I take it that the tree you mean is the one with white all over it. Perhaps if you took a photo closer to the intended tree it might help. The photo showing it is taken from a long way off, and does not help to show the growth etc. Sorry to be a pain but it is not always easy to identify something from a photograph.

[cherrybee]

Originally Posted by wildone

Cherrybee, I take it that the tree you mean is the one with white all over it. Perhaps if you took a photo closer to the intended tree it might help. The photo showing it is taken from a long way off, and does not help to show the growth etc. Sorry to be a pain but it is not always easy to identify something from a photograph.

You are not a pain wildone.If you I am sure you are very nice pain.I had taken 2 of the branches and decided to take the photo of the tree as well,I stood back from it to give an idea of hight against the other trees but it was a bit far off wasn't it Actually I am bored to tears here as I havent got the bike on the road yet and that wood is close by in fact my neighbours around here also confessed to not realising it was as big as it is and not ever visiting it and when i told them about the masses of primroses and wood anemones a couple said they might go for a walk to see how pretty some parts of it are.I need to go and get some more photos as I have run out for the Gallery

[wildone]

Cherrybee, I know what it is like when you are off the road because you have no transport. Is there nowhere you can go in walking distance or how about a bus? You will hopefully soon have a moped on the road and in the meantime keep smiling.

[Gill Catton]

Originally Posted by cherrybee

I dont know really wildone .This had a trunk and was over 10 feet tall but the branches did come a long way down the trunk.I have been ignorant of wildlife most of my life really never really took an interest in it much before until I came here and you have all helped me.I always thought of a tree as being high and bushes a lot lower. I do know a bush can get quite high but this particular one definately stuck me as a tree.Oh well never mind it was very pretty and the flowers of all these fruit type trees are so similar it is very difficult if you havent the knowledge as some of you on here but I am learning.I think i will have to get someone to come with me to the tree/bush and take a photo of them close to it to get an idea of hight and maybe of the trunk to see if anyone can ID it that way

I really don't think there's an awful lot else that flowers so prolifically before the leaves are properly out. It's almost certainly a blackthorn, if not then a close relative.