What tree/shrub please?

[devonwoody]

Prolific grower, I cut it down to ground level each year, never had any berries or fruit.

 

[AndyT]

Looks like a sycamore to me. Notoriously good at blowing into your garden and getting off to a flying start before you notice it. Can produce a nice big tree if you have the room, but cut it down or dig it out if you don't.

 

[devonwoody]

Thanks Andy, that is a surprise quite honestly, no sycamores seen around here I do get plagued with ash saplings (around up to 30 a year). It has been around for at least 30 years stuck in with some old lilac which as seen better days.

The tree shrub must have at least 6/10 shoots comming up like ash copicing (however that should be spelt)

 

[Jacob]

If you let it grow a bit bigger you can coppice it for useful timber especially if you are a turner; 2" diameter for tool handles, knobs, shaker pegs etc.

 

[devonwoody]

Looks like a sycamore to me. Notoriously good at blowing into your garden and getting off to a flying start before you notice it. Can produce a nice big tree if you have the room, but cut it down or dig it out if you don't.

http://www.woodlands.co.uk/blog/tree-id ... /sycamore/
Also Acer and Maple also have the same leaves.

But perhaps all of the same genre?

Jacob cant let that one get a hold in its location.

 

[Rorschach]

Sycamore is a type of Maple.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Some acers have alternate single leaves, some have leaves in pairs. This might help you with your search.
Sycamore tends to have rounder leaves than that - it looks more likely to be a maple.

 

[Woody2Shoes]

Hi - my vote is for either field maple (Acer Campestris/e) or sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) - both maple family - cheers, W2S

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_campestre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_pseudoplatanus

PS looking at your pic again, probably sycamore!

 

[Cordy]

Most likely Sycamore; your photo shows an ugly one at that, all stunted and poor shape :twisted: :twisted:

Should be removed -- root shoot and anchor; otherwise you are storing trouble for later when a tree preservation order is slapped on it #-o :deer

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Look at the difference between the sycamore and the maple -
https://sylva.org.uk/myforest/documents ... on_Key.pdf

 

[Woodmonkey]

Looks like field maple to me, smaller leaves than a sycamore

 

[Sheptonphil]

Leaves look too spiky for field maple, more like Norway Maple (Acer platanoides), still in the same family as Sycamore. It's only a 'scab tree' as our local tree inspector calls them, so dig it out and use the space for something productive.

Phil

 

[devonwoody]

Thanks all.

btw the leaves are slightly spiky on rear of leaf.

 

[thetyreman]

it is some kind of maple species, but hard to tell from that photo. I have noticed norway maple trees are quite common where I live.

 

[CHJ]

Do the leaves turn bright autumn colours before dropping at first frost or just yellow and fall with the wind.

 

[devonwoody]

Not the end of the drama.

A gardener was at a neighbours house and done the odd job in the past for me, I asked him to remove sycamore/maple together with 4 lilac trees covered in ivy with stems as thick as the lilac itself.

He rang my bell five minutes after starting saying he had just been stung by 20 wasps from underneath that sycamore. A ground nest. and left me with another problem.

Funny thing I had been clearing out that area at the weekend getting rid of ground ivy and they never bothered me.

 

[Duncan A]

Lilac is a lovely turning woood. Don't let him take it away!

 

[devonwoody]

Lilac is a lovely turning woood. Don't let him take it away!

But the ivy growth timber is as thick as lilac and bonded on.
Could be something different to turn?