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Tree identification please

mitchio86mitchio86 Posts: 17
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Probably a simple identification but my usual means of identifying failed.  Spotted in Canterbury in May.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,724
    edited June 2019
    Think it's a type of ash ... not the 'common or garden' English Ash, but there is one that turns a wonderful bronze in the autumn and it's often used in parks and gardens etc where a large tree is needed ...maybe it's that?   I love it but I don't know what it's specific name is ... hopefully someone here does ...
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  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,687
    It’s Fraxinus Angustifolia, Narrow Leafed Ash. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,724
    Borderline said:
    It’s Fraxinus Angustifolia, Narrow Leafed Ash. 
    Does that one turn that lovely burnished bronze in the autumn @Borderline?
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  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,687
    It’s Raywood that turns reliably bronze red. From what I have observed, Fraxinus Angustifolia tend to turn yellows and orangey. Still lovely and like fluffy clouds in the summer.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,724
    That looks like it @Borderline ... thanks :)
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  • B3B3 Posts: 24,413
    It's one of my favourites. I wondered what it was too.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • mitchio86mitchio86 Posts: 17
    wow you guys are quick.  Cheers for the identification.  I'm seeing those trees everywhere now that I look out for them.
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