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Ash, or elder?

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  • langford.vicj_K7DVNsmlangford.vicj_K7DVNsm Posts: 2
    I can't decide what this is...... Anyone out there got any ideas? 
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Ash
  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    edited June 2022
    I agree, Ash.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    easy to tell, Elder stinks, Ash doesn't. But this is Ash


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • RedwingRedwing Posts: 1,511
    Sorry to say but it's probably going to get Ash dieback.  
    Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    This is an elder seedling @langford.vicj_K7DVNsm




    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    Agreed.  Elder.  The leaves look wrong for ash.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @nick615 I think you’re confusing the two photographs. 😊 

    The original poster’s photograph of a sapling in a pot is an ash … Fraxinus excelsior. 

    The photograph posted by @Uff (posted for comparison) is an elder … Sambucus niger. 


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





  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    Beg pardon, Dove.  It doesn't take much to get me confused.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    nick615 said:
    Beg pardon, Dove.  It doesn't take much to get me confused.
    🤣 It takes one to know one  ;)

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





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