This tree is growing in my daughters garden. I'm pretty hopeless at IDing trees so can anyone help us please? I've kept the piccies on the large side to, hopefully, make it easier to tell which type it is.
The tree never flowers Glenda and doesn't look at all like the two magnolias I have (one white and one dark red). It has sticky buds which attract lots of insects and it reminds me of an ash tree but I'm just not too sure. :-? The little red leaf casings fall and cover the ground underneath the tree.
Doesn't look like magnolia (most flower before leaf emergence), I thought it could be a Rhus, but then looking at the bark could be one of the Prunus spp. Earthworm
I looked again closer and see that what I thought was blooms is part of the leaf that drops off.I have never seen a tree like that Eileen,
We have a Rhus in ourt garden and it produces large cones of furry stuff ( dont know how to describe it) that attract bluebottles, I think if it was Rhus you would have seen those cones and would be able to recognise it. I dont know what the tree is but it looks awfully familiar, I just cant place it!
Could it be an ash, do you think? Fraxinus excelsior. The leaves seem to fit, but I'm not certain about that red cover.
An ash was my first thought too Droopy but, like you, the red leaf covers have me confused. I was also thinking that it could be a flowerless cherry as the bark is similar to my own cherry trees:?:
I am not sure either, on the toher hand though: Does'nt a Rhus have leaves in multiples of three?? So far I have only seen the ones that have leaves that occur in multiples of three. Rhus lucida, Rhus laevigata, etc. all have their leaves in multiples of three.
After searching on the net I've come to the conclusion that it's a Mountain Ash. I couldn't seem to find any other tree that looks even similar to the one in the piccies.
