Tree/bush ID please

[Tony]

I've been wondering what this is and I thought it was time to consult the Oracle of BCUK membership Any suggestions?

 

[lou1661]

Young field maple, and young elm trees can have a bark pattern like that. Is it in a hedge?

 

[Broch]

I think lou1661 is right. Here is a small field maple in our 'garden' with slightly more mature branches- sorry, a quick snap on the phone.

 

[Toddy]

Thank you for the photos and information, gentlemen
There's a shrubby tree along the back lane that I had no clue about. Pretty sure that's what it is now.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Tony]

Young field maple, and young elm trees can have a bark pattern like that. Is it in a hedge?

Yeah, mostly in roadside hedges around here, some on the disused railway that's more a footpath now...

 

[Nice65]

Have a look at the buds Tony. Field Maple buds are opposite each other, Elm are alternate.

 

[C_Claycomb]

Never seen that for field maple. See bark like that all the time on young elm trees.

 

[Tony]

I'm thinking Elm, I'll have a look at a few more samples tomorrow, but i'd been wondering if it was Elm but dismissing it, so that sort of fits and I'm fairly sure they're alternate buds...

 

[Broch]

All the young field maple around here have that structure (as in my photo) on the younger branches; there aren't any elms here.

 

[Mesquite]

Never seen that for field maple. See bark like that all the time on young elm trees.

You haven't looked at the young field maples in Hemel then Chris. Loads around here that are like that

 

[Toddy]

I know the ones along the back lane aren't elm. We used to have Wych elm, but they died off in a really dry hot summer. They'd rooted into the clinker of the old mineral railway line and it's pretty dry anyway.

M

 

[C_Claycomb]

You haven't looked at the young field maples in Hemel then Chris. Loads around here that are like that

Nope, can't say I have. My close contact with the species has been with older trees and up in the midlands. The elm bark like that is obvious enough that I see it on trees in hedges that I drive past! I know I drive past plenty of field maples, but had never noticed the bark being similar. Will take a closer look.

 

[Tony]

I'll probably take a walk later and have a closer look and get some more pics of different parts of the tree and see if there's any more mature ones close by...

 

[Tony]

here's another couple of images...

 

[Stew]

From the leaves that's not going to be maple and does fit with Elm.

 

[Mesquite]

From the leaves that's not going to be maple and does fit with Elm.

Yup, what ^^ said

 

[Nice65]

From the leaves that's not going to be maple and does fit with Elm.

Yep, perfect Elm image.