Is this a wild cherry?

[Hunter]

I have got several in my wood.

[AHPP]

Looks like the cherry we've got. No idea whether it's wild cherry or some other. Very straight looking stem you have there. A lot of ours is very twisted.

[Hunter]

I am still not sure, they are about 12 inch in diameter and very straight with very few side branches. I have counted 30 of them in small area. I feel bad as I have owned the wood four months now and just noticed them today.

There are similar but older trees with darker bark and several dead side branches but tree bark grow around the dead branches and covered the wounds. As if they are self pruning !!

[Mick Dempsey]

You know they've been planted?

 

It sounds like someone has trimmed the lower branches of the others.

[Pinkfoot]

Avium most likely.

[Hunter]

Here are old picture for the larger ones. I am not sure if they are the same tree species.

Note the dead branches and the healing scars. I have used my silky saw to remove some of the dead branches but the rest are so high.

[Hunter]

You know they've been planted?

 

It sounds like someone has trimmed the lower branches of the others.

 

No. the wood has been neglected for long time.

The ground is covered by overgrowth which made it difficult to explore.

There are parts of the wood we have not seen yet.

Do you think they are wild cherry?

[Mick Dempsey]

The dead lower branches are due to the tree shutting them down as it goes up and the lower branches don't receive usable light.

 

Show some pics of the form of your mystery tree for a better ID.

 

The darker ones do look like wild cherry.

Edited December 21, 2016 by Mick Dempsey

[Mick Dempsey]

No. the wood has been neglected for long time.

The ground is covered by overgrowth which made it difficult to explore.

There are parts of the wood we have not seen yet.

Do you think they are wild cherry?

 

They look like they are in a straight line, leads me to think they're planted.

[miker]

Used to plant cherry in amongst oak,ash beech etc when i was doing the stewardship schemes