Tree identification help needed
Hi all, moved into a house with a tree in the garden but do not know what it is. I have tried using the tree identification app without getting any success. The tree is a stump for most of the year. In the last couple of weeks the first leaves/buds start to grow (May). These can be a deep red/claret colour or green. The leaves grow sometimes 2 by 2 ie if to put a mirror down the middle they would be the same but the sometimes they grow one on left then gap then one on the right. The branches grow very fast and have a bendy rubbery feeling. The last people who owned the house told us to cut back to the stump when leaves fall off. No flowers or fruit from this tree. If anyone know what it is please let me know. Photos attached. Regards Nigel
Last edited: 22 May 2017 07:30:47
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Walnut possibly?
I would say it's a sycamore, especially when looking at the first picture. The leaves and stems are identical to ones I have growing out of a large stump in my back garden.
The leaves shown in the second picture are definitely not sycamore leaves.
These are Sycamore leaves:
Don't think it's a UK native tree ....................
Gleditsia triacacanthos 'Ruby Lace' ?
http://www.bluebellnursery.com/catalogue/trees/Gleditsia/G/1211
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Leaves are too big for Gleditsia.
The second picture looks more like the Rhus tree. Stag's horn Sumach. However the first picture, maybe because the leaves are very juvenile, it looks more like Sambucus type leaves. If your previous owners have lopped off the trunk like that, it makes me think it's possibly a Rhus.
Think this may be it .........Tree-Of-Heaven, Ailanthus altissima
https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=211
https://www.chewvalleytrees.co.uk/products/detail/ailanthus-altissima
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi been looking on the RHS tree identifier and so far looks very much like a Butternut tree.
The bark (and leaves) appear consistent with both poison sumac [http://www.oplin.org/tree/fact%20pages/sumac_poison/sumac_poison.html] and tree of heaven [see Dove's post]. So... one of those two, perhaps?