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Tree identification

ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
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Does anyone know what sort of tree this is? Sorry it’s not very clearly in focus.


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  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Need better pics to be sure...eg clear close up of the flowers.
    Maybe Pyrus...a pear tree.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    It could be a Quince tree, Cydonia Oblonga, but I agree, need more clearer photos of the leaves & flowers.
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited March 2022
    Borderline said:
    It could be a Quince tree, Cydonia Oblonga, but I agree, need more clearer photos of the leaves & flowers.
    Thought Cydonia  oblonga flowered in June.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    The ones I have seen where I'm based usually start flowering in April. Maybe they do flower later in other areas. 
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    edited March 2022
    What I can see of the flowers look more like Magnolia stellata than anything else I know of that would flower at this time of year. If that is it, it's a very venerable old one to be that size.

    Edit - Forget that. On closer inspection I think what I thought was a flower is in fact a tuft of silvery leaves.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
     I agree re the tufts of leaves.

    By the way.
    This tree appears to be growing in a very rural, countyside setting.
    On a country lane/a field edge unless I am mistaken.
    It is unlikely to be something exotic  /something special.

    We need more pics.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I think a pear is most like as SS suggested. Maybe P. salicifolia, they're not all 'Pendula'


    In the sticks near Peterborough
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