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Trees
: 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)
