id this plant

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shawn

Tenderfoot
Nov 6, 2008
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i dont think its poison ivy or oak but it looks similar.
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locum76

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Oct 9, 2005
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Kirkliston
it looks like some sort of exotic maple to me. its hard to say though from this side of the pond. its definitely not oak or poison ivy.

it doesn't seem to have a tree habit either, it looks more shrubby to me.

or it could be a young sweet chestnut...
 

smoggy

Forager
Mar 24, 2009
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North East England
looks like chestnut to me too, are the base of the leaves (where the leaf stalk joins the branch "U" shaped, like a horse shoe?

Don't think it's maple but then again it is the other side of the puddle....

Smoggy
 

robin wood

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Oct 29, 2007
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Sweet chestnut has been extremely rare if not extinct? in the USA for 50 years since Chestnut blight wiped them out. There is a vastly wider flora over there many times more species of tree in particular, I think you need US tree people to do your IDs.

I would guess bukeye (Aesculus) family the only common one in the UK is horse chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum but there are many in the US.
 

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