What is this bush/tree/plant?

[campanula]

i think the leaves are more simple/less lobed than that, and the berries look to be evenly distributed, rather than bunches (panicles?). if i ever remember to take a camera/phone with me i'll try to get a better pic

Could be one of the golden- berried crabs such as Golden Hornet. Was the blossom white? Apart from that (and the viburnum), can only think of pyracantha, sorbus and the orange-y sea buckthorn...O and prunus cerasifera (mirabelle plums) and a quite rare willow leaved cotoneaster.

 

[wayward bob]

yes, it was, big blousy blossoms

 

[campanula]

yes, it was, big blousy blossoms

Ah, that narrows it down quite a bit so I would be looking at flowering crabapples. There is one called Golden Raindrops which has fairly small, simple leaves. I have a few native crabs in my wood (malus sylvestris) which, thinking about it, has yellowish/greenish fruits....as well as a few with more exotic lineages. Try to get a hold of some of the fruit, Bob. The ornamental crabs make lovely trees and can be used for bonsai work. Flowering cherries don't really make my heart flutter (apart from our gean cherries - prunus avium) but the crabs are a different proposition, having such a wide range of species in their breeding.

 

[gentlegreen]

Right on cue these have just started coming in through the window ..
I don't know where the nearest silver birch is ...

 

[StoneRoad]

These seeds are blowing everywhere today, they're all in the house etc.

Any ideas? All I can tell is that they've evolved to be wind-born.

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Pretty sure those are Elm or Wych Elm. Most likely the Wych, as it has some resistance to the killer fungus Ceratocystis ulmi (aka Dutch Elm Disease) and seeds freely.

 

[heinous seamus]

I thought they looked like elm too but all the elm seeds are long gone here.

 

[two sheds]

We still do have loads of elms round here but they all die off when they hit 20 ft or so. They have really strange bark, really wrinkled which I thought was disease but they're apparently supposed to be like that

I loved elms Majestic tree huge they were and offset at the top remember them from the 70s.

I got four or five "disease resistant" elms from a Scottish bloke. They look ok so far but tallest is still only 10 ft high so I can only hope

 

[heinous seamus]

I made a wee shelf out of a piece of burry elm last week actually. Not that practical, but I think it looks nice

 

[Lord Camomile]

Friend gave me this as a gift. When I asked what it was, she said "a bush"

Any ideas?!

 

[gentlegreen]

erythroxylon coca ?

 

[wayward bob]

Ah, that narrows it down quite a bit so I would be looking at flowering crabapples.

i think this could be it i got verrrry stuck in the small/far away thing

and i guess it's rooted in the first branch of the tree like a bonsai we have a load of tree stumps that are sprouting other flowering/fruiting things in that bit of the park - that would be a deliberate choice then? i love it

 

[heinous seamus]

Sorry for the terrible picture, anyone know what this is? Closest I can find is grass of Parnassus but I'm not sure. It was at the bottom of Schiehallion in Perthshire, where incidentally there was also loads of eyebright!

 

[gentlegreen]

It looks quite Ranunculaceae-y to me - a bit marsh marigoldy, a bit anemone-y, a bit helleborey

What's than encircling leaf form called ? - whorled ?

edit :-

perfoliate

EDIT, I reckon you have it right ...

Parnassia palustris - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[gentlegreen]

This mystery tree in my front garden is presumably some sort of prunus.
I crushed a leaf and got a delightful hit of almond / cyanide.
I spotted another one growing out of a wall down the road, so I'm guessing it could be bird-sown rather than any cherry pits that ended up out there ..

 

[gentlegreen]

I'm really enjoying this series of videos about wild flowers...

 

[gentlegreen]

 

[StoneRoad]

Parnassus was the nickname given to the wooden clad "demountable" that was the sixth form "common room / tutor rooms" at my first secondary school (before it transmuted into a comprehensive).
I always wondered what it was named after ...

 

[gentlegreen]

I noticed this plant growing here maybe 20 years ago and assumed it had been lost because it was initially clambering over this house's heating flue.

I'm amazed it has been so successful as it's fairly poisonous and is at a busy part of the Bristol to Bath railway path.
Perhaps even more amazing is that I only just noticed how well it's done this year after 3 months of cycling past it !
Perhaps it shows how attentive I am as a cyclist at quite a complicated junction.

I know what it is and it's one I look out for because it's the sole UK native member of a commercially important family of fruiting plants. I have just been reminded that a second plant with the same name is in an entirely different family.

 

[VfromtheG]

Virginia Creeper vine :/

 

[gentlegreen]

Virginia Creeper vine :/

white briony
related to cucumber

 

[gentlegreen]

I cycled past on Monday and the owner of the hedge had got inspired by some path improvement and sadly it is no more

 

[porp]

Lovely thread .

I was walking along the canal towpath and saw this, any idea what it is? I'm no naturalist so if it's something super-obvious that I should know, then sorry.

 

[gentlegreen]

Lovely thread .

I was walking along the canal towpath and saw this, any idea what it is? I'm no naturalist so if it's something super-obvious that I should know, then sorry.

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my first impulse would be to suggest some sort of garden escape euphorbia ...

 

[prunus]

Lovely thread .

I was walking along the canal towpath and saw this, any idea what it is? I'm no naturalist so if it's something super-obvious that I should know, then sorry.

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Looks like a variety of euphorbia to me.

e2a: snap

e2a2: yes, Euphorbia lathyris, commonly known as caper spurge.

 

[gentlegreen]

a key diagnostic in the absence of flowers would be to see if it contains corrosive white sap ...

 

[prunus]

This mystery tree in my front garden is presumably some sort of prunus.
I crushed a leaf and got a delightful hit of almond / cyanide.
I spotted another one growing out of a wall down the road, so I'm guessing it could be bird-sown rather than any cherry pits that ended up out there ..

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Looks most like a peach to me. And I should know

 

[gentlegreen]

Looks most like a peach to me. And I should know

Could be - given that was where I used to have a compost bin - I even had an avocado for a while - though the winter got it

 

[gentlegreen]

Right on cue, the street cleaner is hacking down my unofficial pavement garden at the base of my garden wall.
I will sow some more verbena bonariensis seeds later ...

 

[porp]

Looks like a variety of euphorbia to me.

e2a: snap

e2a2: yes, Euphorbia lathyris, commonly known as caper spurge.

Thank you Gentlegreen and Prunus.

 

[iona]

What is this I accidentallied the other day, please? Someone left her in a bin bag on the pavement with a sign that just said her name was Hyacinth and she needed a new home, so obvs I had to rescue her