What is this please?

[sandspider]

Hi all

 

Found a couple of these near me. Tried various apps and books, but can't be sure. The leaves look like some sort of oak, but it has red fruit of some sort (mainly gone now, especially on this tree), and the stem is quite gnarled and twisted. Sorry, the pics aren't great!

 

Any ideas? Thanks.

[Graham]

It's a hawthorn. Possibly the remnant of an old hedge.

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Does it have thorns?

Could it be a hawthorn?

[jeanesy]

Looks like a Hawthorn...unless I'm missing something

[daltontrees]

Certainly looks like a hawthorn. Get your hands on a couple of the berries if any remain, squeeze them open. If there's one pip, it will be Crataegus monogyna. Two or more and it is probably Crataegus laevigata.

[daltontrees]

Thorns are not always a reliable indicator as here are thornless varieties.

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Certainly looks like a hawthorn. Get your hands on a couple of the berries if any remain, squeeze them open. If there's one pip, it will be Crataegus monogyna. Two or more and it is probably Crataegus laevigata.

 

Good advice. But watch out for those thorns!

[sandspider]

Thanks chaps.

 

Hawthorn would be embarrassing! (Though at least one of my apps doesn't include hawthorn, so that's my excuse!)

 

But it probably is. No thorns, but they both look fairly aged trees and I believe mainly the younger shoots of hawthorn have thorns. I'll go and see if I can find any remaining berries, but those I saw do look like hawthorn berries according to the interwebs.

 

Cheers.

[sandspider]

Yep, pretty sure it's a hawthorn. Single pip for the one above, but there's also another tree nearby (that I thought was a whitebeam) that might well be a hawthorn too, and has double pips.

 

Thanks.

[Stephen Blair]

Here's 1 the other way round, berries but no leaf.

 

The same tree?