Tree ID practice

[jwade]

This ones got me stumped

 

but its not a big tree and after the added picture of the bark which looks like a substantial tree i am not convinced its the one?

 

 

You ought to see the monster eucryphia they have at Hergest, Herefordshire! Huuuge and spready.

[jwade]

My specimen is only a few feet tall and I have to make some difficult training decisions soon because it is getting multi stemmed which is fine if I want a shrub but not if I want a tree.

 

I personally wouldn't mess with it. It's not a species that takes kindly to pruning, you should allow it to develop it's natural multistemmed habit due to the leader breaking quite early on. The whole idea of this shrub/small tree is to have upright branches that eventually almost 'weep' down to ground level.

 

I'll see if I can dig out a photo of the aforementioned monster one at Hergest.

[daltontrees]

I'd like to see that, thanks. Your comments about pruning are noted, I will decide in early March what to do, the frosty weather is causing a few leaves to fall off and I will hold off for a while.

[MATTMOSS]

You ought to see the monster eucryphia they have at Hergest, Herefordshire! Huuuge and spready.

 

I stand corrected, and so I should. I do not recall ever seeing one and I have been obviously mislead in what I have read about them, probably because they can also be grown as a bush/shrub aswell as a tree.

[jwade]

I'd like to see that, thanks. Your comments about pruning are noted, I will decide in early March what to do, the frosty weather is causing a few leaves to fall off and I will hold off for a while.

 

Yep, eucryphias often have twiggy dieback, especially so after the rubbish cold weather we've been having recently. I've looked through my gigabytes of photos and can't seem to find the giant eucryphia at Hergest. BUT I have some other difficult, unusual tree idents from Hergest to tempt you with.

[jwade]

Heres a nice tree, the biggest of this species I've ever seen. Can you guess it?

 

[MATTMOSS]

Heres a nice tree, the biggest of this species I've ever seen. Can you guess it?

 

 

Cornus

Dogwood

[jwade]

Cornus

Dogwood

 

Yep, it's a Cornus.. got the specific epiphet?

[MATTMOSS]

Cornus florida?

[MATTMOSS]

No probably sanguinea