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03-07-2009, 01:03 PM
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| | | Could somebody help me ID this tree please?
Hi I'm pretty much a new user and more into birds than trees but i've just moved into a new house and i have this tree in my back garden, and after consulting numerous tree books i just can't seem to pinpoint this one.
I thought it was a whitebeam but the undersides of the leaves are not white or particularly hairy....
The tree stands about 10m tall and the leaves are around 4inches long.
Thanks for your help!!      |
03-07-2009, 02:27 PM
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| | | Re: Could somebody help me ID this tree please?
It's definitely a whitebeam, but there are quite a few different species out there and it's a very variable group.
I think this one's just a form of the Common Whitebeam, Sorbus aria. |
03-07-2009, 02:46 PM
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| | | Re: Could somebody help me ID this tree please?
Thank you very much David, i'm tired of scratching my head on this one!  |
03-07-2009, 03:42 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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| | | Re: Could somebody help me ID this tree please?
It looks very much like my Swedish Whitebeam. |
03-07-2009, 03:50 PM
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| | | Re: Could somebody help me ID this tree please?
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Originally Posted by The Woodman  It looks very much like my Swedish Whitebeam. | Swedish Whitebeam, Sorbus intermedia, has lobed leaves - this one's definitely one of the Sorbus aria aggregate of species and I think it's Common Whitebeam, S. aria, itself.
Planted trees are even more confusing than wild ones, because there are also several cultivars that have to be taken into account. |
03-07-2009, 04:03 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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| | | Re: Could somebody help me ID this tree please?
In that case I'm considering a refund from Whitminster Nurseries as my twenty year old tree was sold as such and doesn't have lobed leaves like you say!
Isn't intermedia a cross between aria and the Service Tree? |
03-07-2009, 04:47 PM
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| | | Re: Could somebody help me ID this tree please?
This is Swedish Whitebeam, Sorbus intermedia; 
It's not native to Britain, but is a full species and quite commonly turns up naturalised from bird-sown fruits (this one was found on an old railway line near Cheddar, in Somerset). |
03-07-2009, 07:35 PM
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Thanks David, they're a bit of a handful, the Sorbus boys. | | |
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