Tree ID please

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  1. katty

    katty Apprentice Gardener

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    Hello,

    Can you help me identify this tree growing in my sisters garden, i thought it might be an ash? is it a friend of foe?

    The pictures were taken on my phone so rather small, sorry. photo (1).JPG photo (2).JPG photo.JPG

    Many thanks
    Katherine
     
  2. Phil A

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    Looks more like a Walnut to me Katherine:)
     
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    • Scrungee

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      +1, because it has a smooth trunk. If it was an ash there'd be clumps of seeds hanging from it, and (normally) a walnut would have imature nuts on it now (isn't now the time for pickling walnuts?), but round here there has been almost complete walnut failure this year with most trees not having a single nut on them.

      I'll try to remember to take a pic of a walnut leaf when I go dog walking later on today.
       
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      Hmm I think it is a common old ash to be honest..
      Where the leaves & branch join does it look like this with little black noads.? [​IMG][​IMG][​IMG]

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      This is a poor example of the bark, but on an older tree obviously.. [​IMG]

      This is a walnut tree leaf..
      [​IMG]
       
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      pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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      Bit difficult to tell from the pics.
      But I'd not go for walnut of any kind.
      Possibly Ash, but just to add another one, how about Alianthus?

      We really need close up pics of buds etc.:)
       
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      Doesn't look like Ash to me, Ailanthus is another possibilty along with Walnut, here's a picture comparing Ailanthus and Walnut (Juglans) and another showing an Ash leaf;

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      EurAshLeaf.jpg
       
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      Oh Tresoddit! it's raining - will get my walnut leaf pics tommorow
       
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        katty Apprentice Gardener

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        Thank you all! :)

        Zooming in on the photograph on my phone i can not identify any leaf glands, it also seem to become a bit serrated toward the end which looks like the ash leaf example above. I will take a better picture when i get the chance.
         
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