I thought it was hazel, but...

[coppicer]

Back in the winter I was felled a number of trees one after the other, mostly hazel with some willow. This is an old paddock that was apparently abandoned 20 years or so ago, before I bought the property, and which I am trying go clear and restore to non-woodland use. Having returned to work in it over the past week, I find some of what I cut has dark reddish bark, almost like a prunus of some kind, but the shoots seem to be mostly the grey-green that I associate with hazel (and the bark of the other trees is as one would expect from a hazel).

 

Is it hazel or something completely different?

[rapalaman]

Looks like some hazel I cut last year and have seasoning in the log store

[coppicer]

10 hours ago, rapalaman said:

Looks like some hazel I cut last year

Huh, so it's not just me then! Thanks.