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is this a tree, plant or an overgrown weed?

nongreenfingersbutwantnongreenfingersbutwant Posts: 19
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can anyone advise what this may be please.  'Twas here when i moved in.

Thanks

CT


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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    A ribes of some sort?  Maybe?   Are the leaves pungent when you rub them ?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • nongreenfingersbutwantnongreenfingersbutwant Posts: 19
    Hi Dovefromabove.

    The leaves are not pungent in any way

    CT
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Looks like sycamore to me. All three of your descriptions fit!
  • Jason-3Jason-3 Posts: 391
    I' agree with sycamore diagnosis. I'e just spent several full days pulling up, poisning or mowing the 1000s of the little saplings that mummy sycamore produces every autumn. Personally I'd dig it up and dispose of it
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    That's no Sycamore that's Viburnum opulus or similar


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    I'd second Viburnum ...
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