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: Tree identification
This section will help you to identify 25 of the United Kingdom's native tree types that you may find in your garden or nearby.
Please click on a tree type below to find out what the tree, its foliage (leaves) and fruits look like and also something about its natural habitat :
- alder
- ash
- aspen
- beech
- birch - downy
- birch - silver
- cherry - wild
- elm - wych
- hawthorn
- hazel
- holly
- hornbeam
- lime - large leaved
- lime - small leaved
- maple - field
- oak - pedunculate
- oak - sessile
- poplar - black
- rowan
- scots - pine
- whitebeam
- wild service tree
- willow - crack
- willow - white
- yew
Note
: The illustrations in this section of our website are from a poster
produced by the Woodland Trust and which remain their copyright. Hard copies
of the poster are a member benefit of the Woodland Trust.
Enquiries call 01476 581135. Artist - Vivien Wilson.
See also : Identifying trees by their leaves - on the Forestry.gov.uk website (www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-5g2kv3)
