A quick puzzle

[mountainm]

cut leaf beech

Meh, if it ain't in Collins trees... Then it may as well be a whomping willow. Google agrees with you.

 

[Harvestman]

cut leaf beech aka fern leaf beech

Gentlemen, we have a winner!

Common beech, Fagus sylvatica, form asplenifolia, otherwise known as fernleaf or cut-leaved beech. Growing on the estate where I work, which seems to be full of all sorts of unusual sorts of trees.

The bark is typical beech - grey and smooth.

Thanks all for taking part, and sorry if I frustrated anyone with my annoying puzzle.

Oh, and MountainM, it is in Collins trees, or at least it is in my copy.

 

[mountainm]

Not in mine.

 

[Kepis]

According to my RHS book here, Cut Leaf Beech is not a native, it's an introduced species/cultivar?, it was the native bit that got me i think, lovely looking tree though, never seen one before.

 

[bushwacker bob]

It is a cultivar but it is also still technically Fagus Sylvatica, so could be classed as a native.

 

[Harvestman]

I was thinking beech is a native, and cut-leaved is a cultivar. My book doesn't show it as anything other than a variety. This is the only one I have ever seen, but as it is right next to the site entrance, I walk past it daily at work.

MountainM, I think I'm using an older copy than you are.

 

[Teepee]

I've been sitting here, staring at that photo, searching google with no result.

All the time, looking at it thinking 'that looks like a Beech, but it can't be with those leaves'

 

[Harvestman]

I've been sitting here, staring at that photo, searching google with no result.

All the time, looking at it thinking 'that looks like a Beech, but it can't be with those leaves'

That is exactly what I did the first time I saw it too

 

[Kepis]

It is a cultivar but it is also still technically Fagus Sylvatica, so could be classed as a native.

Best tell the RHS then

 

[Harvestman]

Also in with that tree on the estate there are hornbeams, Black Locust, Osage orange, more maple varieties than I can count or identify, several exotic confiers, and some shrubs that I still haven't worked out. Oh, and a Golden Rain Tree, which sounds highly dubious, but is actually rather pretty.

One day I need to get a serious tree expert in there, and I will learn loads.

I get my St George's mushrtooms there too.

 

[Toddy]

Have to admit I thought those were catkins, and since my beech's are dark I never gave them a thought.
Whitish bark to me is silver birch or poplar.

We live and learn

cheers,
Toddy

 

[bushwacker bob]

Golden rain tree is also called the varnish tree and has edible seeds.

 

[bushwacker bob]

Best tell the RHS then

It was them that told me when I did their exam 30 years ago

 

[Androo]

Gentlemen, we have a winner!

Common beech, Fagus sylvatica, form asplenifolia, otherwise known as fernleaf or cut-leaved beech. Growing on the estate where I work, which seems to be full of all sorts of unusual sorts of trees.

The bark is typical beech - grey and smooth.

Thanks all for taking part, and sorry if I frustrated anyone with my annoying puzzle.

Oh, and MountainM, it is in Collins trees, or at least it is in my copy.

Aww shucks! I was reading the start of this thread thinking "I know it, I know it!" suprised peeps didn't get it before it was got. In a garden I worked at we had a massive one that succumed to a fungal disease and was turned into many a worksurface for the numerous workshops, the house diary said it was planted 120 years ago... - we used to sit under it and eat our lunch. Stunningly elegant tree. Scuse the pics, this was many years ago when digicams were in their infancy ;O)

Thanks for the reminder

 

[Kepis]

It was them that told me when I did their exam 30 years ago

Must have been reclassified since 1982 then, as it shows it as Introduced in the 1800's, well it does in the book i have here that was published by the RHS is 2009.

 

[John Fenna]

Huh - it would have been easy if you had showed us the bark ......?

 

[Toddy]

That Southern Nettle tree looks interesting, John I didn't know that one at all.

I have a Beech hedge and it's dried bronze leaves hang on right through to late Spring Lovely trees, and useful, if not good for camping under.

cheers,
M

 

[treelore]

i'm 99% shore its a Fagus ‘Quercifolia’

 

[treelore]

i really should read the other post before replying lol.... yep it shore is a Fagus sylvatica 'Asplenifolia' stunning tree

 

[Harvestman]

Huh - it would have been easy if you had showed us the bark ......?

Much too easy