small tree id

[se7enthdevil]

Hornbeam!

 

 

+1, always hornbeam!

 

 

 

 

gentlemen,

 

can we please get away from the hornbeam thing, its really annoying and i would honestly like a positive id on this tree please

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

according to my book a cockspur thorn is (crategus crus-galli)

 

prunifolia is the plumleaf thorn which it looks similar too...

 

Sounds like your getting closer then, I'm pretty sure it's one of the ornamental crateagus's.

 

Cheers..

Paul

 

PS Deffo not Hornbeam

[Eddy_t]

gentlemen,

 

can we please get away from the hornbeam thing, its really annoying and i would honestly like a positive id on this tree please

 

Mate, it's a crataegus spp, you can see that by the bark, leaf and fruit! It'll be one of the pink flowering varieties, flowering in spring, go to WH Smiths and buy the Collins guide to trees, it's a big black book with a drawing of a tree on the front

 

 

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[daltontrees]

It has the habit, bark, haws and leaves of Crataegus crus-galli (Cockspur Thorn). The species has vicious thorns that make ordinary Hawthorn look poofy by comparison. Does your trees have thorns that would rip your eyeball out like a sausage on a cocktail stick?

[slack ma girdle]

Put me down for a cockspur thorn as well.

[se7enthdevil]

i don't remember seeing any thorns at all. i could go and have another look tomorrow.

 

all the evidence is pointing to the hawthorn genus and i'm happy to call it that.

 

i thought i knew what a hawthorn looked like, i've just expanded my knowledge.

[treeminkies]

lol im with eddy t lol that's the book to start with, funny i did suggest a tree ident directory think it could be useful....... and no it aint no f.....g hornbeam lol

[MATTMOSS]

i don't remember seeing any thorns at all. i could go and have another look tomorrow.

 

all the evidence is pointing to the hawthorn genus and i'm happy to call it that.

 

i thought i knew what a hawthorn looked like, i've just expanded my knowledge.

 

You do know what a hawthorn looks like, this isn't one.

Its a species of thorn

cockspur would be my guess.

[treeminkies]

but isnt that a member of the hawthorn Genus...!

[Eddy_t]

lol im with eddy t lol that's the book to start with, funny i did suggest a tree ident directory think it could be useful....... and no it aint no f.....g hornbeam lol

 

Any tree ID guide is a start, especially when the OP posts so many trees for ID, bite the bullet, spend £20 on the book

 

 

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