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Unknown tree in the garden. Help!

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  • WaysideWayside Posts: 845

    The trunk looks more purplish (rowan) than greenish (ash).  Is it just one tree in your photo?  It looks large and I could have been fooled into thinking there were many.

  • EdlontonEdlonton Posts: 59

    Its only one tree in the area. Three branches. Quite tall really. Maybe 4 or 5 metres tall .

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Rowan for me



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Invicta2Invicta2 Posts: 663

    If you look at the leaflets silhouetted against the sky you can the little serrations on the leaf edge which are found in Rowans but not Ash trees.

  • arneilarneil Posts: 313

    My Sorbus has just been cut down due to renovations , it was huge ! The trunk and some branches are sawn and stacked for next winters fire . I am still in mourning :(

  • EdlontonEdlonton Posts: 59

    Oh brilliant. Mistery solved! Thank you all for your help. The serrated leaves looks like a definitive statement. I can't wait to see the red fruit! Will post more pictures when it happens. 

  • EdlontonEdlonton Posts: 59

    Oh Arneil! That sounds sad ... ?

  • Bushman2Bushman2 Posts: 548

    It's def a rowan 100%. Lovely trees. In years gone by when a Rowan was cut in any way you said sorry because people believed the souls of the dead were inside, hence rowan groves grew near churches or near celtic crosses etc

  • arneilarneil Posts: 313

    Gulp ! just been in the shed and apologised ! It had white berries by the way

  • Bushman2Bushman2 Posts: 548

    Good save arneli image The white berries means its a cultivar as the native Rowan is red berries and is also sometimes called mountain ash.

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