jwade
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good tree that, taste the fresh spring foliage - fries like onions.
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Oh yeah.. are we talking oriental names such as 'chinensis' 'sinensis' 'orientalis' etc.. or the less obvious ones like 'delavayi' 'henryi' etc.... Just thought i'd try and squeeze as many hints out of you as possible...
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My last one btw was Castanea henryi, doubt anyone would have got that one :-P har har har aaaaah we're entering the realm of dried up 'herbarium' type idents... should be fun.. I'll get the ball rolling with my first stab of Fraxinus chinensis
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Nope, it's not in that family. BUT Juglans is in the Fagales order, as is this tree.
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Well there you have it.. Guessed in an earlier post. I wasn't aware of the synonym - It's a wonderful tree and amazes me why it's not grown more outside of specialist collections.
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Can't tell from here..But maybe an pagoda tree? Sophora (know it's not called that now, just prefer the old name). erm... or perhaps some sort of acacia. A closer look at foliage and flower would be helpful.
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Well you asked for it!
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Bang on. One of the largest dogwoods.
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Nope, but getting closer - it's in the same subsection of Cornus as c.contraversa and is also known for getting 'giant'
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It's a cornus that has it's flowers in bunches, creamy white and not yellow. Also the leaf is larger than that of c.mas or c. officinalis (a larger version of aforementioned).
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Nope, it's a Cornus, but it's most certainly one of the tree growing ones. Can get exceptionally big for a Cornus actually.
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My initial thought was that, or a Catalpa sp. But the photograph isn't detailed enough, would like to get a look at leaf and flower morphology. ah. edit. Actually reading posts helps! C. trichotomum, 'glory bower' or 'harlequin glory bower'. But tends not to have a common name
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Yep, it's a Cornus.. got the specific epiphet?
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Heres a nice tree, the biggest of this species I've ever seen. Can you guess it?
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Yep, eucryphias often have twiggy dieback, especially so after the rubbish cold weather we've been having recently. I've looked through my gigabytes of photos and can't seem to find the giant eucryphia at Hergest. BUT I have some other difficult, unusual tree idents from Hergest to tempt you with.
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I personally wouldn't mess with it. It's not a species that takes kindly to pruning, you should allow it to develop it's natural multistemmed habit due to the leader breaking quite early on. The whole idea of this shrub/small tree is to have upright branches that eventually almost 'weep' down to ground level. I'll see if I can dig out a photo of the aforementioned monster one at Hergest.
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You ought to see the monster eucryphia they have at Hergest, Herefordshire! Huuuge and spready.
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It's not Eucommia ulmoides, the leaf edges are different - being serrated/gland tipped, and the upper leaf surface is a deeper glossier green on E.ulmoides, it also has has a long drip tip and is deciduous.
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Doesn't look like a e. japonica, leaf isn't dark green and large enough with a silvery underside. I'd go with a Eucryphia species. Eucryphia glutinosa or perhaps a hybrid E. × nymansensis 'Nymansay'. Just a stab.
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Funnily enough, I was thinking along the lines of the cut leaf alder. Alnus glutinosa 'imperialis' perhaps?...
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Yep, could possibly be... A. grosseri is thought to be a subsp of A.davidii me thinks. I'm leaning towards A.capillipes, the striations don't look as white as on some of the other snakebarks. Could be wrong though! A. distylum isn't that often encountered.
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It's gotta be one of the snakebark maples? I'll reel off the obvious ones that come to mind... Acer capillipes, Acer rufinerve, Acer Davidii. Judging by the colour it looks more a. davidii or one of it's subsp.
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c.japonicum is actually in it's own family. Cercidiphyllaceae, contrary to what the label states.
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Yep. with foliage like that it's c. japonicum, you occasionally see c. magnificum, which is a larger leaved form coming from higher altitude Japan I believe. I've seen some beautiful large specimens of this tree abroad that make our ones seem like babies - even the champion one at Hergest croft (which btw is a beauty). Lovely planted in groves, where one can appreciate the autumn colour and the candyfloss smell. My wild guess on the quercus is Q.cerris.
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If you happen to ever visit Arley arboretum, they have a beautiful Acer griseum. I think it's the national champion infact. In my experience they are a pain to grow from seed - even with two or three trees growing and fruiting prolifically close by. They have a hard seed coating and are slow to get going. Would probably explain why they are so expensive to buy as plants!
