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You'll be saying next that you didn't know about strawberry trees?! :lol:The leaf looks the right kinda size and shape for a couple of magnolia species, but it doesn't look like it's got the right "texture" to me though.

 

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Well, its fagus, I found a single specimen growing in a youngish beech hedge which has huge leaves. It could be one of the cultivars mentioned above or a random new "sport". Perhaps I should take a cutting....

 

Good guesses everyone.:001_smile:

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Well, its fagus,...

 

Interesting.

 

It goes to show how most of us rely on taking in information about the whole tree when it comes to idents, rather than focussing on one particular detail.

 

Beech ain't exactly rare and that totally threw me :confused1:

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I meant that leaves of this size were rare, I was being a bit mean tbh but I thought it was interesting having never seen anything like that before, I'd say the average leaf was 20cm long, that one being maybe 25.

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I meant that leaves of this size were rare, I was being a bit mean tbh but I thought it was interesting having never seen anything like that before, I'd say the average leaf was 20cm long, that one being maybe 25.

 

If you hit one really hard or even pollard it, they will produce leaves that size in an effort to survive.

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I meant that leaves of this size were rare, I was being a bit mean tbh but I thought it was interesting having never seen anything like that before, I'd say the average leaf was 20cm long, that one being maybe 25.

 

I knew that's what you meant :001_smile:. The leaves are exeptionally big and what is actually a common species stumped most of us, apart from one particular smartarse :sneaky2:

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