How many tree species can you identify?

[Diver]

Not bad. 12 out of 52, a quarter.

The reason I recognised those is because my hobby is cabinet making and carpentry and I scrounge felled timber

+ I cut down Beech, Birch & oak when I cleared my property. + planted 21 Leylandii. Apple,Pear, cherry and plum trees.

I also grew up in the country, but surprised that I couldn't identify more

[TimberWolf]

The reason I recognised those is because my hobby is cabinet making and carpentry and I scrounge felled timber

+ I cut down Beech, Birch & oak when I cleared my property. + planted 21 Leylandii. Apple,Pear, cherry and plum trees.

I also grew up in the country, but surprised that I couldn't identify more

I thought I recognised maple and oak, but maple and sycamore leaves and seeds are similar in those images, and oak leaves of sub species (oak and holm oak) are different but have similar seed. I think I'd have to see them for real to get to know more definitively.

[NickFitz]

Not only how far away, but the way that you say it
Is very important. Perhaps you may never get
The knack of judging a distance, but at least you know
How to report on a landscape: the central sector,
The right of arc and that, which we had last Tuesday,
And at least you know that maps are of time, not place, so far as the army
Happens to be concerned - the reason being,
Is one which need not delay us. Again, you know
There are three kinds of tree, three only, the fir and the poplar,
And those which have bushy tops to; and lastly
That things only seem to be things.

- Henry Reed, Lessons from the War

[alluvial]

You can test yourself here: BRITISH TREES - A CHART OF TREES, LEAVES AND FRUIT

I didn't even know there was a tree called "Box".

Yep, lovely stuff, I have a few rounds of it in my workshop waiting to be turned into chisel handles. One of the four native British softwoods which is quite ironic as it probably has the densest and hardest woods of all British trees.

[pacharan]

Not wishing to blow my own horn but I'm pretty good at idents.

Can pretty much do all the native/established trees and am ok on garden species.

It all comes unstuck when I visit places like Westonbirt. I never knew so many tree species existed!

On the cycle in to work today I saw an Indian Bean Tree (katalpa) in someone's garden. That will have lovely white/purple flowers in a few weeks time and impressive seed pods in late summer.

They are popular in big cities, especially in Asia, as they are remarkably tolerant of high levels of pollution.

[xoggoth]

Yeh, doing an android tree ident app at mo. Not in hurry as will probably have to be free, too many others with more species.

[pacharan]

Yeh, doing an android tree ident app at mo. Not in hurry as will probably have to be free, too many others with more species.

Taking your own pics?

[mudskipper]

Weren't these once the standard fare for school woodwork classes? None of my kids has ever brought home a mug tree. Educational standards ain't what they used to be.

[alluvial]

Weren't these once the standard fare for school woodwork classes? None of my kids has ever brought home a mug tree. Educational standards ain't what they used to be.

Not the metal kind anyway.

[Gonzo]

Not sure if it's worth the effort.

Probably not. Just make sure that you recognise a triffid in case you should come across one.