Can anyone identify these three trees please.

Constant_Gardener

'Can anyone find a picture of the midlands thorn?'

If you google 'midland hawthorn tree' - second row second picture. Can someone tell me how to import pictures please? Also how to quote message in reply - I am not very tech minded

jumblejack

Constant_Gardener wrote: »

'Can anyone find a picture of the midlands thorn?'

If you google 'midland hawthorn tree' - second row second picture. Can someone tell me how to import pictures please? Also how to quote message in reply - I am not very tech minded

The hawthorns around here and plentiful to say the very least. There are half a dozen in the vicinity of these 3trees above and they look much different. The leaves do look like a guelder rose but I'm not convinced.

I think that as the tree goes through the stages it might be easier to identify.

I foraged loads of elderflowers yesterday. I started off batch no 2 of elderflower champagne. First one went bad (clouds of slimy matter). I threw it out and decided to start afresh.

I've also got a jelly on the go from wild cherries picked yesterday.

I'd love to go foraging somewhere new today but it is soooooooooo wet:(
Feel really frustrated.

splodger_seedswapper

1 is defo spindle tree - and it is poisonous
3 is defo guelder rose

2 isn't really clear enough - could you maybe take a pic of the whole thing so that we can see the shape and size - and a pic maybe of a sprig, showing how the leaves sit etc

PollyOnAMission

Response from my resident tree expert:


1) Euonymus europaea (Spindle tree)

2) Cornus sp. (Dogwood of some description - there are many)

3) Viburnum opulus (Guelder rose)

followed by: "If I were writing a test of native trees, and I wanted to separate the wheat from the chaff, those three would be in there..."

So I guess they are tricky ones!

jumblejack

Cheers guys. I will take a few moe pics as suggested of leaf positioning etc just to be sure over the next couple of days and upload.

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