Help ID tree in NW UK?

[cbar]

Hi,

 

Could someone please help me identify this tree? I suspect this is a simple one for people familiar with this subject. I've tried the Woodland Trust Identification app which is suggesting Hazel but I'm not convinced I've gone through it correctly.

 

Given the size of it do you think it'd be safe to transplant to another location?

 

Thanks,

Cbar

[Paul in the woods]

I don't think it's a hazel, looks more like a sessile oak although the leaves don't look quite right. I'd guess an exotic oak of some sort?

[slack ma girdle]

Sorbus

[Mick Dempsey]

7 minutes ago, Paul in the woods said:

I don't think it's a hazel, looks more like a sessile oak although the leaves don't look quite right. I'd guess an exotic oak of some sort?

Sessile oak? You cannot be serious.

[Stubby]

Whitebeam ?

[Mick Dempsey]

Alder.

 

[Paul in the woods]

2 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Sessile oak? You cannot be serious.

I suggested an exotic oak as the leaves don't look right for anything I know, and I know there's all sorts of imported oaks grown.

 

I did think about a sorbus or alder but the leaves don't match any I've got.

 

Which alder?

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

2 minutes ago, Paul in the woods said:

I suggested an exotic oak as the leaves don't look right for anything I know, and I know there's all sorts of imported oaks grown.

 

I did think about a sorbus or alder but the leaves don't match any I've got.

 

Which alder?

 

 

Dunno, if I’m honest.

[daltontrees]

Alnus glutinosa, perhaps?

 

Any tree can be moved if you take a big enough chunk of soil with it. That one might need a metre radius around it, and down about 0.6m.

[openspaceman]

2 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Alder.

 

Yes I think so from the buds and lenticels on the twigs.