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I have drawn a blank It is the first time I have come across it. Growing on the farm on the edge of a woodland block at about 1000 ft, miles from any habitation so not ornamental. Tree about 15 metres tall. Seeds look like Alder but trunk and leaves don't. Any suggestions?
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An elm of some sort?
Downy Oak?
Black Alder
Turkish Hazel: Corylus colurna
Was my thought from the trunk, but nothing else really fits.
I didn’t know that btw, I used Seek and it got it straight away which is usually a good indication.
It's an Alder...
Ha ha, Seek now saying alder from the fruit/seed 🙂
I'm better at id-ing timber when it's in boards.
Can you cut it down and plank it up?
Ahh! Alder, or the 'tits and willies tree' as we used to call it on our horticulture course.
I'm still not 100% convinced mind. For one, it says the Grey Alder has smooth bark even in old age. This one is very coarse. And secondly, what is a tree from central-Northern Europe doing half way up a remote welsh hillside?
Might it possibly be a dried up mulberry or similar? Any sign of there having been any flesh on the friot at all?
As far as I’m concerned it’s definitely not a hazel or alder going by the leaf margin - not toothed. Some weird service tree (sorbus) is my first thought cos there’s all sorts of them about and it’s got that vibe to it but I’m gonna have to dig the books out. Can’t be too foreign cos the local flies look to have had a party on the leaves.
Edit; but I’ve been very wrong before.
Common alder with some evidence of leaf galls.
Tis 100% not a common Alder. Got millions of them around here and thiis is nothing at all like them (apart from the fruit)