Tree ID please?

[stevelucocq]

Hello,

 

Not sure what this is? Thinking a type of elm (leafs alternate but the seed is surrounded by a 3 lobe thin leaf like structure (one long lob two short).

 

Thanks in advance for any help!

[se7enthdevil]

this one is a hornbeam.

[stihlmadasever]

Hop hornbeam me thinks

[se7enthdevil]

i thought the hop hornbeam seeds look like a hops plant, hence the name.

these look like a normal hornbeam seed don't they?

[stihlmadasever]

i thought the hop hornbeam seeds look like a hops plant, hence the name.

these look like a normal hornbeam seed don't they?

 

You could be right,i was thinking the hop as it had pendulous

hop like clusters of husks,the common hornbeam and has catkins rather than the cluster.

[daltontrees]

Yaaaay! Finally a real hornbeam. Where are all the jokers now?

 

I'd say not Ostrya, definitely Carpinus, very likely C. betulus

[stihlmadasever]

Got my id book out,looks more like the common hornbeam,the browned 3 lobed bracts of the fruit confirm it.

I salute you sir!

[daltontrees]

Down near Oxford there's an arboretum I went to, can't remmeber the name. Theres a Hornmbeam and Hop Hornbeam right beside one another and just going by thre leaves I tell you it's not easy to distinguish them. If you have one of each leaf side by side you can see the difference but if tested on it 2 minutes later you'd easily get it wrong. I'll see if I can find pictures.

[se7enthdevil]

i'd be interested to see a pic of a hop hornbeam as i don't think i've ever seen one before.

 

 

 

i only knew it was a hornbeam as there are a few near me but also i had a customer that needed some timber from one so i became fairly clued up on what they look like.

 

 

googling oxford arboretum it comes up with this,

 

http://www.harcourt-arboretum.ox.ac.uk/visitor-info

Edited October 19, 2015 by se7enthdevil

[stihlmadasever]

Weve got a huge hornbeam in one of our parks,it beautiful in early autumn.