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Thank you very much Paul(s) for the quick answer! that looks a very likely candidate! As a result I found it was there all along as a small picture in my Collins. I will definitely have to smell next time I'm passing one Cheers, david

Hello! Hopefully someone will have an idea of what this tree is Ulverston in Cumbria. Attached as a 5-page pdf to give higher-resolution. Thanks very much in advance, david temp.pdf

Tetradium danielli is described here - Tetradium daniellii in Flora of China @ efloras.org the general key is here - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=132553 d

Hello! I wonder if anyone would be able to identify or suggest what the attached tree is, W of Edinburgh. I've attached it as a pdf so presumeably you'll be able to zoom in more than the 800x600 the attachment manager specifies for jpgs. Thank you very much in advance, david Rose-Family Tree.pdf

Western Red Cedar (which I think I Id'd correctly) smelt to me beautifully of Pear/Apple drops. d

Brilliant. I hope it will be as visual as possible with the terminology? For example, whilst you can ask if leaves have 'petiole'/'stem' or not, you can simply show a leaf diagram with or without stem (highlighted) to choose from, and so forth. Pictures and text can be combined. d

Sometimes it's good to let the squirrels get them... if you know where they're stashing them. I was down in Essex end of June, and I found several neat piles, of about 500 nuts, I'm sure it wasn't the deer. A portion of them (leaving Mr Squirrel plenty) certainly helped my tenting about! d

Hmm, with your suggestion of hazel, I've been looking around at hazel sprouts, and googled some images, but I can't find any with this appearance... d

Edibility, as with many other plants (including other Rhus) here - http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Rhus%20typhina d

Those pictures don't seem to come out very large, so here attached is a PDF which you can zoom in on!! david tree.pdf

I'd be grateful if someone could enlighten me what this one is (Edinburgh), hopefully it's self-explanatory! david

> Any advice for treating aphid (I think!) infestation? You could borrow Boris' new water cannon... d

After a little looking, I wonder if it's one of these - There's a few more "climbing trees" here - http://afkra.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/worlds-hardest-tree-to-climb.html d

On a plant ID site, I saw posted the following tree, no details given:- I would be rather fascinated to know what it is...! d

"Pegs" where I first read that distinction for spruce... so the mnemonic would be "peg-see-a" or "pegsier" - any more will sound like a pig's ear...