Tree Identification Series

[Jodie]

Your garden looks as if it has a road through the middle! Nice trees

I am really into London planes at the moment. They're utterly stunning
but don't show up well on my camera unfortunately. Plus I know so
little about them, but isn't their bark camouflage-y?!

 

[Deleted member 4605]

The tree I identified as a Beech turns out not to be. I've updated the post with correct photos of a Beech, and posted the old photos now identified as Black Poplar.

http://schwuk.com/articles/2007/2/6/tree-identification-black-poplar

It's easy to make a mistake!

 

[loz.]

The tree I identified as a Beech turns out not to be. I've updated the post with correct photos of a Beech, and posted the old photos now identified as Black Poplar.

http://schwuk.com/articles/2007/2/6/tree-identification-black-poplar

It's easy to make a mistake!

Your site, although not to be trusted, is still very cool ;-)

 

[Deleted member 4605]

Your site, although not to be trusted, is still very cool ;-)

Thank you. I think.

 

[Jodie]

Ah but now I know that black poplar looks a bit like beech whereas before I
didn't know what either of them looked like so I've learned something

I still haven't worked out how to load up a photo here, or at least how to make
them smaller (without downloading any software) to load up but I might add
the London plane photos to Flickr as they're quite pretty and the camouflage
bark came out quite well. I keep waiting for the baubles / fruit to fall off, but no...

 

[Deleted member 4605]

Ah but now I know that black poplar looks a bit like beech whereas before I
didn't know what either of them looked like so I've learned something

Then my mistake was worthwhile to others as well!

I still haven't worked out how to load up a photo here, or at least how to make
them smaller (without downloading any software) to load up but I might add
the London plane photos to Flickr as they're quite pretty and the camouflage
bark came out quite well.

I've uploaded a couple of photos to the gallery here, but I generally use Flickr or All You Can Upload. The latter even gives you the code to include in your posts here.

 

[Matt Weir]

Hi schwuk,

You seem to have failed to mention the edibilty of beech nuts (remember to remove the skin and just toast the kernel).

Matt.

 

[Deleted member 4605]

Thanks Matt - I forgot about the nuts. I've updated the article.

http://schwuk.com/articles/2007/1/26/tree-identification-beech

 

[loz.]

"Sawdust can be boiled, baked, mixed with flour and made into bread."


You do mean the ground roasted Beechnut don't you - and not actually the dust of sawn beech ?


ps - your sites cool - my previous post was an attempt at humor

 

[Deleted member 4605]

You do mean the ground roasted Beechnut don't you - and not actually the dust of sawn beech ?

Nope - sawdust. That's what I read on a site. Apparently they used to do this in Sweden and Norway.

ps - your sites cool - my previous post was an attempt at humor

I guessed. Thanks for the compliment.

 

[loz.]

Nope - sawdust. That's what I read on a site. Apparently they used to do this in Sweden and Norway.

 

[Greg]

Thanks for doing this,
I know it is primarily for your scout group but I quite frankly being rather new to Bushcraft need alot of practice when it comes to identifying trees and shrubs. And this is helping alot.

 

[Deleted member 4605]

Thanks for doing this,

You're welcome.

I know it is primarily for your scout group but I quite frankly being rather new to Bushcraft need alot of practice when it comes to identifying trees and shrubs.

Actually it's primarily for me! The Scouts just get the benefit! And you lot as well. I always believe there's no point learning just to hoard the knowledge - share the wealth.

And this is helping alot.

I'm glad it's helping.

 

[Risclean]

I might need a "pine disambiguation" page especially for me cos I can't really
tell the difference between Scots pines and other pines at the moment*

The pictures were nice, but Flickr wouldn't let me see them enlarged although
that could be a fault my end.

Good stuff though!

*confidently predicting a time at some point in the future when I will, of course.

Well... Scots Pine has blue green needles fairly long with a bit of a twist, Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta) has slightly longer olive green needles also with a twist.

The Black pines (Pinus nigra) have long dark green needles, Corsican pine (subspecies maritima) is a tall straight tree which is common in lowland forestry while the Austrian pine (subspecies nigra) is a rugged heavy branched tree not useful for forestry but used for shelter.

The Mountain pine (Pinus mugo) is a shrub or small tree with short olive green needles.

These are the commonest pines, though there are a lot of other species in gardens and collections.

I hope this is useful.

 

[extko]

just wondering if theres anymore tree i.d's due on your site, I keep checking for new ones, or have you given it up now? hope you havent. just wondering.

thanks

 

[Deleted member 4605]

I do mean to continue this series, but I've been inundated with work recently, and I'm in the process of changing jobs, so I'm not sure when I will get back to it, but i will be soon.

Thanks for the interest though!