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Title: can anyone tell me what type of tree this is?
Post by: sawfish on June 03, 2010, 09:34:37: (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stan.shepherd/tree2.jpg)
Title: Re: can anyone tell me what type of tree this is?
Post by: Unwashed on June 03, 2010, 09:43:07: First guess would be a sorbus of some sort, swedish whitebeam maybe. Do you have them growing in the street?
Title: Re: can anyone tell me what type of tree this is?
Post by: sawfish on June 04, 2010, 09:46:41: it was growing wild in orkney
Title: Re: can anyone tell me what type of tree this is?
Post by: OllieC on June 04, 2010, 09:56:12: Quote from: sawfish on June 04, 2010, 09:46:41
it was growing wild in orkney

In that case it's a very lucky tree... with a very short life expectancy!
Title: Re: can anyone tell me what type of tree this is?
Post by: Obelixx on June 04, 2010, 12:45:32: Does that mean you dug it up from the wild? That's illegal.

If, as seems likely, it does turn out to be a Swedish whitebeam it will get to between 10 and 20 metres tall and have a trunk of 60cm diametre so I think maybe you'll find you've squished it too close into that corner.
Title: Re: can anyone tell me what type of tree this is?
Post by: Unwashed on June 04, 2010, 12:52:23: Quote from: sawfish on June 04, 2010, 09:46:41
it was growing wild in orkney
>:(
Title: Re: can anyone tell me what type of tree this is?
Post by: Bugloss2009 on June 04, 2010, 13:20:30: maybe that's what we should do - find trees in a harsh environment, and then give them a better home

like what Madonna does with children
Title: Re: can anyone tell me what type of tree this is?
Post by: ipt8 on June 06, 2010, 22:31:19: If those leaves are very white underneath it looks very much like Swedish WHitebeam.