Plant ID please

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• Busy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

  April 2023

  Is there a horse chestnut tree near you? Could be a flower bud. There is a tree in my street that has dropped sprigs like that on the pavement.

  Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.

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• joanna65 Posts: 75

  April 2023

  Thanks for the response. There is a tree in the next street but it is not particularly near. I will have a walk over there later and see what I can find on the pavement.  

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  April 2023

  Maybe an Acer sp,
  Flowers snapped in the wind.

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  April 2023 edited April 2023

  See above.
  This is a bud from  Aesculus hippocastanum...horse chestnut.
  Rather heavy and chunky.

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• bédé Posts: 3,095

  April 2023

  Sycamores and other maples (acer) do it often in windy weather.   I guess a horse chestnut might, but I don't recall having seen it.

   location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
  "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."

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• Busy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

  April 2023

  Oh well, I was on the right track, off a tree, but wrong tree.

  Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.

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• joanna65 Posts: 75

  April 2023

  Thanks all. Sycamore makes sense, there are several close by and it has been very windy recently. I had a look at the horse chestnut but not the same. 

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  April 2023

  joanna65 said:

  Thanks all. Sycamore makes sense, there are several close by and it has been very windy recently. 

  Acer pseudoplatanus ...common name Sycamore it is!
  Fits perfectly.

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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