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xssx_lisa_xssxxssx_lisa_xssx Posts: 4
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Could anyone please help to identify this tree in my garden, it was bought as part of an Japanese Acer collection from wowcher but I can’t find an acer online that matches so may be something else. Thank you 

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,295
    Willow, probably Goat Willow


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 10,897
    I agree - there's masses of it where I walk my dog over the fields.
    Definitely not a keeper

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • xssx_lisa_xssxxssx_lisa_xssx Posts: 4
    Thank you
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,030
    It has fluffy seeds that drift on the breeze and then land and take roots in pots where other plants are growing ... a real interloper  :/

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





  • xssx_lisa_xssxxssx_lisa_xssx Posts: 4
    Thank you, I’m shocked as it was bought as part of a Japanese acer collection and actually looks like a nice little tree 😮
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,003

    @xssx_lisa_xssx If you ordered Japanese Acers that is not what you received . Can you contact the seller maybe. This sort of thing needs to be stopped, you have paid for something you didn't get. Welcome to the forum and good luck!
    RETIRED GARDENER, SOUTH NOTTS.
    Building a garden is very personal. It's not quite the same as installing a boiler.
    James Alexander Sinclair 
  • xssx_lisa_xssxxssx_lisa_xssx Posts: 4
    Thank you all for confirming my suspicions 😂
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,030
    Tell them it's Salix caprea.

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





  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,581
    Acer leaves are opposite so cannot possibly be an Acer.
    Agree with all others ....Salix caprea...common name Goat willow!
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
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