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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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...

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Edibility, as with many other plants (including other Rhus) here -

http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Rhus%20typhina

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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...

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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

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On a plant ID site, I saw posted the following tree, no details given:-

I would be rather fascinated to know what it is...!

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"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...

Perhaps the poster is able to post some photos of other identifying characteristics, such as a clear picture of a cone found underneath it, bark photo, etc

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That certainly makes a lot of sense - thanks for the info!

I run a nature and environment facebook page for the village here, pointing out things for people to notice around them in the village, and today's post was about this tree

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Thanks so much! Everything else seemed to key out well to be A. grandis, smell included.

All the new shoots are being wrecked by aphids or their like (as every year) and the leaves become quite powdery-covered.

I did ask for sure since if it grows large (it's actually two together) it's a pretty interesting/weird place to have them, in the midst of a tiny village that would be dwarfed by it...! like building a skyscraper there

david

Is the Grand Fir / Abies grandis the only one that smells like tangerine when you scratch its leaves, or are there any others?

thank you

david

I SO know that feeling!

With wild plants I've learnt to swoop in with a camera and snap like mad in all the right places, with a 30x jeweller's loupe over the lens, before moving on, so that I can decipher it all later at home!!!

I'll definitely try the botanics first, it can easily be a fun day for others, and then try to head to Dawyck as the next

david

I think that would quickly start to hurt on this one! the cones of N Spruce are also 20cm (in my book), but these were just half that size...

...bet I'll go back and find it's rigida though! d

Thank you very much Jules!

I have a 3-needle one here which I think might be Monterey, I should post it when I get some good photos

Also I think I would benefit when I get a chance from a week in the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens nearby; I have just got a list of all their trees, and also got a list of all the council trees (50,000), just to give myself a kick-start!

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Oh I think it's just that in my mind are the plates of orange and empty branchless trunks and fuller needled branches, I'm only just getting round to examining them all now - I started off on wild flowers and put off conifers before being a big scary group, so I am just now tackling them Probably a case of the more pines you know there are, the less confident you become when you meet one!!

david

Thank you, I'll remember that