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Please can anyone identify this tree?

Bek_AlexBek_Alex Posts: 6
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Hi!
I rescued this tree from my parents garden when they were moving house but I have no idea what it is. It was never planted (that my mum remembers) so I wondered if it might be a fruit tree of some kind?
Thanks for any help you can give. Sorry the pictures aren't great - the tree was still in the boot of the car on the rescue mission ☺

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  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,061
    Might be totally wrong here , but the reddish stems and white undersides look like Cotoneaster lucidus .
    Maybe someone else will be more accurate !
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,049
    edited May 2018
    It looks a bit like Salix Caprea.
    Devon.
  • Bek_AlexBek_Alex Posts: 6
    Thanks very much - I will go and look those up!
  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,061
    Thought I'd be 'totally wrong' ;..............a few too many vodkas (again)!!
  • Bek_AlexBek_Alex Posts: 6
    Haha thanks though Paul 😀
    Was at a garden centre today and saw a salix that looked the same. Great to know what it is - thanks Hostafan! 
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