UK gardening - Wotsit tree

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Wotsit tree

Jaques d'Alltrades

2005-07-31, 8:21 am

There's a seedling of a tree I'd like to put a name to.

I collected the seeds under its parent, which is growing in Norwich.

The tree looks a little like an ash, with a very regular bark on a tall,
straight trunk - possibly fifty feet, and growing.

The seeds are more like big elm seeds than ash at first sight, with the
seed in the middle of the long membrane of thin translucent green
material. They grow in clusters like ash keys.

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/mystree.jpg

Next time I'm there I'll take a pic of the parent tree too.

Oh, my runners, grown just how they shouldn't be - they only get the
afternoon sun and are planted on only about six inches of admittedly
well-fertilised soil, at:

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/beans4.jpg

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Rusty
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Pam Moore

2005-07-31, 10:21 am

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 12:10:10 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades
<creaking.gate@foobar.zetnet.co.uk> wrote:

>There's a seedling of a tree I'd like to put a name to.
>
>I collected the seeds under its parent, which is growing in Norwich.
>
>The tree looks a little like an ash, with a very regular bark on a tall,
>straight trunk - possibly fifty feet, and growing.
>
>The seeds are more like big elm seeds than ash at first sight, with the
>seed in the middle of the long membrane of thin translucent green
>material. They grow in clusters like ash keys.
>
>http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/mystree.jpg
>
>Next time I'm there I'll take a pic of the parent tree too.
>
>Oh, my runners, grown just how they shouldn't be - they only get the
>afternoon sun and are planted on only about six inches of admittedly
>well-fertilised soil, at:
>
>http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/beans4.jpg

For some reason it will not load for me. Maybe others will have the
same problem.

Pam in Bristol

Harold Walker

2005-07-31, 10:21 am

>
> For some reason it will not load for me. Maybe others will have the
> same problem.
>
> Pam in Bristol

Indeed 'tis so......H

Mike Lyle

2005-07-31, 11:21 am

Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
> There's a seedling of a tree I'd like to put a name to.
>
> I collected the seeds under its parent, which is growing in
Norwich.
>
> The tree looks a little like an ash, with a very regular bark on a
> tall, straight trunk - possibly fifty feet, and growing.
>
> The seeds are more like big elm seeds than ash at first sight, with
> the seed in the middle of the long membrane of thin translucent
green
> material. They grow in clusters like ash keys.
>
> http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/mystree.jpg
>
> Next time I'm there I'll take a pic of the parent tree too.
[...]

I got the 404 treatment, too. But I wonder if it's an American ash:
"white ash", do they call it?

--
Mike.

Jaques d'Alltrades

2005-07-31, 3:21 pm

The message <asgpe1le8jghpun0kocaibg918aa9a1t3c@4ax.com>
from Pam Moore <NOSpam.moore@NOSPAMvirgin.net> contains these words:

> For some reason it will not load for me. Maybe others will have the
> same problem.

Sorry folks - missed out the directory -

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/temp/mystree.jpg
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Rusty
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http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

Stewart Robert Hinsley

2005-07-31, 4:21 pm

In message <313030303230303842ECBFA238@foobar.zetnet.co.uk>, Jaques
d'Alltrades <creaking.gate@foobar.zetnet.co.uk> writes
>
>The seeds are more like big elm seeds than ash at first sight, with the
>seed in the middle of the long membrane of thin translucent green
>material. They grow in clusters like ash keys.
>
>http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/mystree.jpg
>
Possibly Pterocarya or Carya. The leaf looks more like Carya than
Pterocarya, but I haven't seen the seed of Carya.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

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