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Random Musings => Miscellany => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: andyoxon on 08 October, 2023, 03:13:49 pm

Title: Plant id?
Post by: andyoxon on 08 October, 2023, 03:13:49 pm
Any plant/leaf experts out there?  Growing in the front garden, next to a soon to be removed diseased ornamental cherry.  I've done a google image id and it comes up with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulmus_chenmoui  Could it be this?  Thoughts?  I was just going to remove it, and plant a Acer palmatum...  Probably 3/4metres from house & 2m from path.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53243011921_00eaaf8975_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2p7Umua)MysteryPlant1 (https://flic.kr/p/2p7Umua) by a oxon (https://www.flickr.com/photos/145942400@N06/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53243011941_bc8fa1b1e1_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2p7Umuv)MysteryPlant1a (https://flic.kr/p/2p7Umuv) by a oxon (https://www.flickr.com/photos/145942400@N06/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Plant id?
Post by: rafletcher on 08 October, 2023, 04:02:38 pm
My wife concurs with Google.
Title: Re: Plant id?
Post by: andyoxon on 08 October, 2023, 05:01:42 pm
Ok.  It's small so could be transplanted.  Perhaps I should ask a local arborist/botanist/someone.  Don't really want a 20metre high tree in front garden.  Mind you we get Oaks & Sycamore trees popping up everywhere thanks to the squirrels.
Title: Re: Plant id?
Post by: andyoxon on 08 October, 2023, 05:51:16 pm
So, knowledgeable neighbour says it's cherry and it's sprouting from the trunk but below soil level. Leaves on the new sprout are bigger & much greener than old parent.  Given main tree is diseased unlikely to do well, & may as well dig up.  Elm has much rougher leaves apparently.
Title: Re: Plant id?
Post by: PaulF on 08 October, 2023, 05:58:51 pm
We had an ornamental cherry cut down a few years ago and it’s still throwing out shoots
Title: Re: Plant id?
Post by: Wobbly John on 08 October, 2023, 06:50:39 pm
Looks like a cherry to me.
Title: Re: Plant id?
Post by: andyoxon on 08 October, 2023, 07:11:15 pm
Yep, cherry.