Does anyone know what tree this is?

[APC]

definitely not a hornbeam. smells like an Acer like people have said.

[roseyweb]

I Pity the fool who thinks that's a horn beam

[daltontrees]

It might be worth considering Alnus cordata var. genuina, I was out on survey today and found two adjacent A.c one was var. rotundifolia which is dark green and glossy leaved and the other one I thought was var. genuina, markedly different, lighter less glossy leaved, slightly serrated leaves, just showing the heart shape at the base but going to a fairly abrupt point.

 

I am finding Carpinus betulus and any of the Acers not terribly persuasive so far.

[Mark Bolam]

I don't know what it is, but it isn't a Hornbeam.

[daltontrees]

I have just checked with my sample today of supposedly A. cordata var genuina and it has definitely alternate buds. Your specimen look like opposite pairs, like you would expect on an Acer species. Can't think of any that don't have at least slightly lobed leaves. Except maybe Acer davidii var. Ernest Wilson, but even that is not convincing.

[MATTMOSS]

I have just checked with my sample today of supposedly A. cordata var genuina and it has definitely alternate buds. Your specimen look like opposite pairs, like you would expect on an Acer species. Can't think of any that don't have at least slightly lobed leaves. Except maybe Acer davidii var. Ernest Wilson, but even that is not convincing.

 

Acer distylum doesn't have lobed leaves.

[jwade]

The long drip tips and the snakebark look to the branches suggest to me this is an Acer sp. Acer davidii has variation in lobing, some being lobed, others weakly or unlobed.

[Le Sanglier]

I Pity the fool who thinks that's a horn beam

 

So do I....... jeeez. You can understand at the beginning of a thread when trying to be first but as it wore on....really:confused1:

[Dean Lofthouse]

Criticism discourages people from having a go at id, those who criticise are the fools

[Le Sanglier]

The guy wanted an ID, it wasn't a fun quiz. And for a while there he had been convinced by others it was a Hornbeam, wrongly.

It wasn't even close.