Help! Desperate to identify this beautiful tree

[Wellhello]

Hello, I'm new to this site.. And to gardening in fact! Trying to find a tree for a small courtyard garden. Would absolutely love to plant this tree but can't work out what it is... Any ideas?

[Wellhello]

Sorry better photo here...

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Looks like Sorbus aria.

[Wellhello]

Thanks.. I looked at that. I thought Sorbus aria leaves weren't such a lime green colour and didn't think the bark was such a reddish brown? Or am I wrong?

I wondered whether the trunk texture looked like a birch?

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

I think the yellow leaves may be chlorosis or some other deficiency. It's not a birch that I know. The photos are not that great for identification. An in focus close up of the finer twigs and leaves would be beneficial. From what I can make out it has the general leaf shape and habit of Sorbus but I am sure someone more knowledgeable than me will be along to identify it for you. If it is a birch I will eat my hat!

Where did you see this tree?

[the village idiot]

See what you mean about the trunk texture but It's definitely not a Birch.

 

My money's on Whitebeam too.

 

 

How long till someone drops the 'H' word?

[Wellhello]

Thanks really appreciate you ruling birch out was frantically looking through species with copper rose trunks! The leaves aren't birch at all as you both say...

I see, so the leaf colour might be misleading.

It's in a pot outside a cafe in Kilkenny Ireland where I'm visiting family. They don't seem to know what type of tree it is.

I'll try to take a couple of better photos tomorrow to post.

Do you think Sorbus Aria or Sorbus Aria Lutescens? Sorry if I'm asking something very obvious .. I'm a bit new to the gardening world!!

[5 shires]

Hello, I'm new to this site.. And to gardening in fact! Trying to find a tree for a small courtyard garden. Would absolutely love to plant this tree but can't work out what it is... Any ideas?

 

Could be a Gean Cherry.

[Stubby]

 

 

How long till someone drops the 'H' word?

 

 

 

[agg221]

Thanks really appreciate you ruling birch out was frantically looking through species with copper rose trunks! The leaves aren't birch at all as you both say...

I see, so the leaf colour might be misleading.

It's in a pot outside a cafe in Kilkenny Ireland where I'm visiting family. They don't seem to know what type of tree it is.

I'll try to take a couple of better photos tomorrow to post.

Do you think Sorbus Aria or Sorbus Aria Lutescens? Sorry if I'm asking something very obvious .. I'm a bit new to the gardening world!!

 

I don't think the leaf colour is misleading - I think it's the 'Aurea' form, so Sorbus aria 'Aurea'.

 

Sorbus aria Aurea (Gold Leaf Whitebeam)

 

Alec