Plant and Tree ID please?

[HillBill]

Will sort some more later when we walk past the stand they are in again.

It really does look like a silver maple to me, any chance of an overall pic of the tree, the bark and what type of ground its growing in Mark?

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Don't silver maple leaves have white-ish/grey (silvery ) undersides ?

 

[Retired Member southey]

yup, mature leaves but not so silvery in new growth,

 

[treelore]

Hillbill you should inform the EA to the GHW plant and theyshould deal with it or contractors will come in to do the job. If you want to tackleit yourself, buy a disposable over suit with a hood, gloves (latex) and a duskmask and safety specks. You want to cut and double bag it and the tool you usealso place in a bag until you can clean with petrol or the like. Burn the GHWin an incinerator with the gloves, over suit and mask. The regen from the GHWwant to be sprayed off with round-up if you are near a water course, or injectit into the stem. But again the best bet is the EA, I’d just mention that kitsplay round there and it’s an accident waiting to happen ….that should get them to puta wiggle on

 

[John Fenna]

Genesis wrote a song about the giant Hogweed - worth a listen (it was EARLY Genesis - not the later carp pop based rubbish!)

 

[Colin.W]

Initally I thought the leaves were from a plane. if it is a mature tree it will have fruit like fluffy pop poms that have a really hard centre once you pull all the fluffy stuff off the outside.

 

[HillBill]

There is no fruit on the tree that i can see. Definitely nothing like plane fruit. They are mature (ish) trees, between 20 and 30 feet tall.

More pics.

This is the bark from the 3 trees in the stand. The first is the largest.

Leaves turned upside down with the wind. Not really silvery, just a paler shade of green

The stand. only the central 3 trunks are these maples.

 

[HillBill]

Aye, i'll give them a ring and see what they have to say.

Hillbill you should inform the EA to the GHW plant and theyshould deal with it or contractors will come in to do the job. If you want to tackleit yourself, buy a disposable over suit with a hood, gloves (latex) and a duskmask and safety specks. You want to cut and double bag it and the tool you usealso place in a bag until you can clean with petrol or the like. Burn the GHWin an incinerator with the gloves, over suit and mask. The regen from the GHWwant to be sprayed off with round-up if you are near a water course, or injectit into the stem. But again the best bet is the EA, I’d just mention that kitsplay round there and it’s an accident waiting to happen ….that should get them to puta wiggle on