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Help to identify a tree please?

FossbeckFossbeck Posts: 9
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Hello there,

I'm a real beginner at this sort of thing so hoping someone can help me or point me in the right direction.

I'm trying to identify a lovely tree in the front garden of our new house (so that we can rename and forever obliterate it's current name!). We can't get rid of the name, we have to change it.

Anyway, we have lots of good comments on the tree so think it would be nice to name the house after it. 

My very basic knowledge suggests it *might* be a whitebeam but someone has also said Rowan but I'm not convinced.

If anyone could help me I'd really appreciate it.

Many thanks and best wishes.


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  • PhaidraPhaidra Posts: 534
    Gosh, it looks so familiar, but I don't quite know its name!  Plenty of really helpful people here though who know thei stuff.
  • FossbeckFossbeck Posts: 9
    Thank you! Fingers crossed … !
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,034
    It looks like Cotoneaster cornubia to me...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 84,024
    Liriodendron said:
    It looks like Cotoneaster cornubia to me...
    And to me. 

    A bit of a mouthful for a name ... Berry Cottage?  :/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FossbeckFossbeck Posts: 9
    Thanks so much, I've never even heard of a Cotoneaster cornubia so I would have never have got that! 

    Love the idea of Berry House though - or Red Berry House! 

    Thanks again.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,060
    Might even be a rather poorly pruned C. Hybridus Pendulus.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 84,024
    Love Red Berry House  <3

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FossbeckFossbeck Posts: 9
    Dovefromabove said:
    Love Red Berry House  <3
    Me too. :smile:
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,034
    Probably better than Cornubia Cottage...   :D
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 16,720
    I would certainly go with Cotoneaster sp. We cut a monster like that down at my friends house. It was pushing over the fence. I had never seen one with such a thick trunk.
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