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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 (58kb)
- ash (71kb)
- aspen (66kb)
- beech (72kb)
- birch - downy (57kb)
- birch - silver (57kb)
- cherry - wild (52kb)
- elm - wych (63kb)
- hawthorn (73kb)
- hazel (68kb)
- holly (66kb)
- hornbeam (62kb)
- lime - large leaved (63kb)
- lime - small leaved (69kb)
- maple - field (71kb)
- oak - pedunculate (66kb)
- oak - sessile (57kb)
- poplar - black (67kb)
- rowan (65kb)
- scots - pine (48kb)
- whitebeam (58kb)
- wild service tree (67kb)
- willow - crack (61kb)
- willow - white (61kb)
- yew (66kb)
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)
