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anyone recognise this shrub / tree with white bark and downward branches

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  • ju1i3ju1i3 Posts: 189
    Thanks @Rubytoo. As @Borderline mentioned immature vs mature, I thought I'd check streetview to see what it looked like before (whenever it was). According to google in March 2018 it didn't exist so everything we see now grew this year - I'm surprised. 
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    Is it part of a park or gardens or canal area. Is there a possibility it has had some work done or been planted this side of March?

    There are some lovely places in your area. Quite envious you have the wonderful Highgate Cemetery.
    You have done a good job with the photos ju1i3, darn you I now want one :D
  • ju1i3ju1i3 Posts: 189
    It's along the car park of London Zoo where there's been work by Thames Water and HS2 so sure planting anything new is the last thing happening. The area's looking pretty barren right now although it's supposedly a hedgehog area https://www.zsl.org/blogs/zsl-london-zoo/hs2-and-hedgehogs-at-zsl-london-zoo-–-an-update
    The only thing looking good is the Japanese knotweed which is in bloom.

    I'm going to take another photo from the road to better compare with streetview.

  • ju1i3ju1i3 Posts: 189
    a closer examination of streetview and I see it was indeed there in March of this year, I'm intrigued by the brown thing in the middle of the shrub in the 2nd photo, maybe it's a stump? and the branches are growing from that, I see another visit is on the cards
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    You're going to have to go back .... just to relieve our collective curiosities lol

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





  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    I wonder if that is the hedgehog baffle, measure, they installed at the bottom of the railings to stop hedgehogs wandering off if/when disturbed by the proposed works.
    Dovefromabove said:
    You're going to have to go back .... just to relieve our collective curiosities lol
    Absolutely! The stump would explain the shape of the branches left. Best check.
  • ju1i3ju1i3 Posts: 189
    Yes, there's a stump but I'm no closer to identifying it. There are shoots flat on the branches (my camera wouldn't focus properly - hopefully they are clear enough). Lines on the branches - sure there's a botanical name for that but I don't know what it is.




  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Could it be an ordinary ash tree? Might have been cut down because of ash tree dieback perhaps.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited November 2018
    Today I passed a stump with regrowth that I think is like yours.
    Whiteish/curved new growth
    I believe it is Fraxinus excelsior...an Ash tree.
    May I suggest a little later on you check the buds.
    If it is Ash then the buds will be brown.  see pics.

    I cannot see clearly enough if there are in fact 2  different trees/shrubs in your pics.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
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