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09-02-2008, 08:00 PM
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| |  Unidentified TREE.
Yep.
I admit it.
I'm terrible at trees.
We've got lots of these trees around Reading - all looking like bare chestnut trees or something, decked out with spikey christmas baubles.
I assume its some kind of chestnut? Like I have a clue?! 
Its probably non-native and an ornamental pest....
Any help appreciated please, to an embarrassed black rabbit...
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09-02-2008, 08:23 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Yorkshire Dales
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| | | Re: Unidentified TREE.
Could it be a Sweet Gum Liquidambar styraciflua ??
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09-02-2008, 08:29 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified TREE.
you got ther before me, it is the sweet gum tree  |
09-02-2008, 08:33 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified TREE.
The detail of the tree is not good enough to ID (probably couldn't any way), a pic of buds etc would be helpful.
The baubles look like some kind of gall, I am sure I have seen that before. |
09-02-2008, 08:54 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified TREE.
Looks like fruit of Liquidamber styraciflua to me too. Not native- it's North American + a useful amenity tree with often fabulous (red) autumn colour. + very attractively shaped leaves. It's certainly not a pest- I've not even seen a naturalised one yet.
It does seem to have some wildlife benefit as last autumn I observed Goldfinches, a Greenfinch + a Blue Tit feeding from these fruits. |
09-02-2008, 09:20 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Hidden in the clover
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| | | Re: Unidentified TREE.
Thanks all!
I am a true numbskull when it comes to trees.
Note to self- must buy a book on them!
Cheers again
Doug |
09-02-2008, 09:25 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified TREE.
My initial thought from the description was the good old London Plane which seems to catch a lot of people out with its christmas baulbulls....
but then i saw the pic and although a similar idea the fruit and bark are different to London Plane, so im going to say listen to aeshna as he/she seems to be on the right track?
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09-02-2008, 10:13 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Hidden in the clover
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| | | Re: Unidentified TREE.
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter  My initial thought from the description was the good old London Plane which seems to catch a lot of people out with its christmas baulbulls....
but then i saw the pic and although a similar idea the fruit and bark are different to London Plane, so im going to say listen to aeshna as he/she seems to be on the right track? | To be honest Dan, you've done me a favour with that comment.
MOST of those many "baubled trees" I see around Reading are London Planes I thought (and you've confirmed I think), but the one above was a wee bit different.
So ta for that.
Doug |
09-02-2008, 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by The Black Rabbit Thanks all!
I am a true numbskull when it comes to trees.
Note to self- must buy a book on them!
Cheers again
Doug | Try: The Collins Complete British Trees by Paul Sterry
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09-02-2008, 10:46 PM
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Oh well, not been South of Leeds for 25 years. What are you breeding down there?  | | | |
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