Tree Ident

[Island Lescure]

Can't be a Prunus as it's a single terminal bud. Prunus are clustered, no?

 

Sorbus it does appear to be.

 

Extract taken from Collins Tree Guide 2004, wild cherry description of buds: "cherry buds are clustered only on flowering spurs"

 

Here is a Prunus? that I looked at a while ago:

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-identification-pictures/87201-deciduous-just-emerging-what.html

[daltontrees]

I'm so confused now. That 2015 thread is definitely cherry. The bark looks like P. serotina, which I have seen pictured with this kind of horned bud, but not as red as that. But serotina flowers in racemes.

[daltontrees]

I have an update on this once I get some pictures uploaded. The answer is that both Sorbus and Prunus produce buds exactly like this. So everyone's right, hurrah!