Here's a question...how do I best recognise a beech?! I have been deliberating over the hedging at work, trying to decide if it is or isn't. The leaves look right but are paleish green and only the very youngest leaves are fuzzy. tHe young stems are reddish brown with fine white fur.
Beech is often used as hedging so it might be. But your best bet to be sure of ID would be to find an actual tree (they are quite common) and have a root around underneath it for signs of last year's nuts - do you know what a Beech nut looks like? I use google images quite a bit, but a proper plant/tree guide book with photos is better. Hornbeam is another common hedging tree/plant which looks a bit similar I think - the leaves of that one are more crinkly. Hope that helps a bit?
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Date: 2009-05-08 02:58 pm (UTC)Hornbeam is another common hedging tree/plant which looks a bit similar I think - the leaves of that one are more crinkly.
Hope that helps a bit?
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Date: 2009-05-08 03:52 pm (UTC)