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The bark is smooth and greenish-grey, even in old trees. The buds, unlike those of the beech, are 10 mm (0.39 in) long at the most, and pressed close to the twig. The leaves are alternate, 4–9 cm (1.6–3.5 in) long, with prominent veins giving a distinctive corrugated texture, and a serrated margin.
The bark, light gray when young, changes to a coarse gray outer bark with lengthwise furrowing, lenticels prominent. [5] The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, 10–30 centimetres (4–12 inches) long, pinnate with five to seven (rarely nine) leaflets, the leaflets 5–12 cm (2– 4 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) long and 3–5 cm ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 –2 in ...
Britain and Ireland have few endemic trees, most being micro-species of Whitebeam. But there are some interesting endemic trees nevertheless. Apomictic Whitebeams endemic to the British Isles: Sorbus arranensis – Isle of Arran only. Arran Service Tree – Isle of Arran only. Sorbus pseudomeinichii - Isle of Arran only.
All summer long, the leaves are bright green, happily doing their photosynthetic thing.
The bark is smooth and greenish-grey, becoming shallowly fissured in all old trees. The leaves are alternate, 3–12 centimeters (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 4 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) long, with prominent veins giving a distinctive corrugated texture, and a serrated margin. The male and female catkins appear in spring at the same time
Newton's Apple Tree, Woolsthorpe Manor. Metasequoia at Emmanuel College, Britain's first Dawn Redwood, in Cambridge University Botanic Garden; Great London Plane of Ely, Britain's first London Plane in Ely, Cambridgeshire; Newton's Apple Tree in Woolsthorpe Manor, Grantham, Lincolnshire; Bowthorpe Oak in Bourne, Lincolnshire; Kett's Oak in ...
The tree is a pioneer species, readily colonising cleared land, but later being replaced by taller, more long-lived species. The bark can be stripped off without killing the tree. The bark and the timber is used for turnery and in the manufacture of plywood, furniture, shelves, coffins, matches, toys and wood flooring.
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