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12-06-2011, 05:45 PM
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| | | Oak ID
Sorry not the best image.
Am I right in thinking this is not a common Oak? Quite a few of these have been planted next to some local woodland. The leaf seems darker and thicker than common oak, also the underside of the leaf is light in colour. |
12-06-2011, 06:02 PM
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| | | Re: Oak ID
I'm wondering if this is one of the Whitebeams, with the underside looking like that. Wait for expert opinion though.  |
12-06-2011, 06:04 PM
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| | | Re: Oak ID
This could be Turkey Oak Quercus cerris, the leaves do look a bit too substantial to be Quercus petrea which was my second thought.
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12-06-2011, 06:07 PM
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| | | Re: Oak ID
Actually on closer inspection of the enlarged photo agree with Deb on Sorbus intermedia - can just see serrated edges to the lobes.
Laura |
12-06-2011, 06:07 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Snowdonia, N. Wales
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Yes, as Deb has said, a Whitebeam, Possibly Swedish Whitebeam - Sorbus intermedia, a commonly planted tree much loved by councils and similar authorities.
Nice trees.
orts. |
12-06-2011, 06:12 PM
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| | | Re: Oak ID
wow that was quick thanks, are these tress native/good for wildlfie? |
31-07-2011, 09:24 AM
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| | | Re: Oak ID
The birds must surely like the big red berries.
One of these Swedish Whitebeams grows in a garden I look after. Nobody planted it - I spotted it when it was just 3 inches tall during the weeding and let it grow to see what it will become.
it is now 10 ft tall, very healthy and has survived a very serious Honey Fungus attack in the garden which killed all the other trees and most shrubs around it.
Guess it was the result of a bird dropping a berry (or even in the bird poo ?) as there are no other Swedish W/B nearby.
Neil.
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