Author Topic: Know your leaves (Read 3069 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **on:** 12 July, 2013, 11:40:40 pm »

A little Graundia quiz on tree leaves.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/quiz/2013/jul/12/identify-uk-trees-leaves-quiz

i got them all

Kim · « **Reply #1 on:** 12 July, 2013, 11:50:14 pm »

6/8, surprisingly.

I'm disappointed that none of them were The Larch.

Jurek · « **Reply #2 on:** 12 July, 2013, 11:53:18 pm »

Number 1 was.

Same score 6/8

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3 on:** 13 July, 2013, 12:02:59 am »

Quote from: Jurek on 12 July, 2013, 11:53:18 pm

Number 1 was.

Same score 6/8

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mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #4 on:** 13 July, 2013, 12:04:50 am »

8 out of 8

I is happy

fuaran · « **Reply #5 on:** 13 July, 2013, 12:35:38 am »

8 out of 8 for me.
Most were fairly obvious, though I'd never heard of a maidenhair tree before. I don't think there's many of them around here.

Arch · « **Reply #6 on:** 13 July, 2013, 09:22:42 am »

8 for me. Although a couple were based on "I know it's neither of the other multichoice options", and one I had to go back and correct an earlier guess when I saw it and realised that it was that one and not the one I ticked earlier.

Still. 8.

bumper · « **Reply #7 on:** 13 July, 2013, 09:34:44 am »

CountrySickness · « **Reply #8 on:** 13 July, 2013, 10:17:27 am »

8/8 as I would have expected

, although I was nearly defeated by some really crap leaf pictures

hellymedic · « **Reply #9 on:** 14 July, 2013, 03:54:20 pm »

I also got 8 but cheated on a couple.

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I really only knew about four or five.

Chris S · « **Reply #10 on:** 14 July, 2013, 04:16:07 pm »

8/8

I like Trees.

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #11 on:** 14 July, 2013, 04:50:22 pm »

8/8 I'm no tree spotter, so I think it was a bit easy...

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Well done. Older people are more likely to have better knowledge of trees.

Damning with faint praise. Thanks!

David Martin · « **Reply #12 on:** 14 July, 2013, 05:04:42 pm »

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #13 on:** 14 July, 2013, 05:26:18 pm »

Maidenhair is Ginko biloba, a Chinese tree. The Oak looks like Quercus cerris to me, but could be rubra.

Chris S · « **Reply #14 on:** 14 July, 2013, 05:45:21 pm »

Quote from: Exit Stage Left on 14 July, 2013, 05:26:18 pm

Maidenhair is Ginko biloba, a Chinese tree. The Oak looks like Quercus cerris to me, but could be rubra.

Teacher's pet.

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #15 on:** 14 July, 2013, 05:57:05 pm »

Leaves are fairly variable feature of tree species. I once got asked to identify a shrub at Westonbirt, fortunately we'd had a guided tour from Alan Mitchell, writer of the Collins guide the week before, so Hornbeam-leaved Maple was easy. It's the Willows and Poplars that are difficult.
London's a great place for tree-spotting, especially the city, where a lot of American trees thrive due to the high temperatures. It's probably the best thing about the place from my point of view.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_8256000/8256682.stm

Vince · « **Reply #16 on:** 15 July, 2013, 04:54:21 pm »

8/8

A couple I only got by a process of elimination.

L CC · « **Reply #17 on:** 15 July, 2013, 06:23:11 pm »

That was very easy, surely?

8/8

hatler · « **Reply #18 on:** 15 July, 2013, 06:41:17 pm »

Pretty straightforward.

I knew five and the other three were logical deductions.

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #19 on:** 17 July, 2013, 01:24:34 pm »

Quote from: hatler on 15 July, 2013, 06:41:17 pm

Pretty straightforward.

Quote from: fboab on 15 July, 2013, 06:23:11 pm

That was very easy, surely?

Quote from: Pickled Onion on 14 July, 2013, 04:50:22 pm

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Well done. Older people are more likely to have better knowledge of trees.

L CC · « **Reply #20 on:** 18 July, 2013, 09:17:23 am »

Acksherley I think my (hardly vast) tree knowledge is probably because I was in The Woodcraft Folk.

I'm not old. Surely? It's just that everyone else is getting younger.

clarion · « **Reply #21 on:** 18 July, 2013, 03:46:18 pm »

Six in my case. I'd have got seven, but I went back and changed one for the wrong answer

fuzzy · « **Reply #22 on:** 19 July, 2013, 03:31:43 pm »

3/8

In my defence M'lud, I was certain (and correct) that none of them was a 'Nabis leaf.

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #23 on:** 20 July, 2013, 10:22:13 am »

OK fuzzy, just for you

five supplementary questions:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

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fuzzy · « **Reply #24 on:** 22 July, 2013, 11:25:40 am »

1- Dunno
2- Bannnnnannnnnannnnnana?
3- Red Cross Of Doom Tree?
4- Khat?
5- Coca (or whatever the Charlie tree/ bush is called)?

Unless 3 is so, none of them is 'Nabis M'Lud.

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