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AdRock
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September 2019
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We’re visiting Anglesey abbey today and came across this beauty... doesn’t anyone know what it is please?
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Borderline
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September 2019
It looks like Ailanthus Altissima, Tree of Heaven. Perhaps cut down a few times previously. They grow like weeds where I'm based in the South East.
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September 2019
I agree with Borderline.
If you look very carefully at a leaflet you will see a tiny lump, a wart...this is a gland and helps to id
Ailanthus Altissima.
A blinking pain of a tree it suckers.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Ailanthus+Altissima,+leaf+gland&rlz=1C1CHBF_enGB785GB785&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimjKzw-9LkAhU0QkEAHUheA1EQ_AUIEigB&biw=1920&bih=936
Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
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If you look very carefully at a leaflet you will see a tiny lump, a wart...this is a gland and helps to id Ailanthus Altissima.
A blinking pain of a tree it suckers.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Ailanthus+Altissima,+leaf+gland&rlz=1C1CHBF_enGB785GB785&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimjKzw-9LkAhU0QkEAHUheA1EQ_AUIEigB&biw=1920&bih=936