Latest Trees

Plum Prunus

Description:
Plum leaves are simple, oval to oblong and come to a point at the end. The leaf margins are scalloped. When it flowers in the early spring, a plum tree will be covered in blossom, and in a good year approximately half of the flowers will be pollinated and become plums. Flowering starts eighty days [...]

Pear Pyrus Munis

Description:
Pears are medium sized trees, reaching 10–17 m tall, often with a tall, narrow crown. A few species are shrubby. The leaves are alternately arranged, simple, 2–12 cm long, glossy green on some species, densely silvery-hairy in some others; leaf shape varies from broad oval to narrow lanceolate. Most pears are deciduous, but one or [...]

Mulberry Morus

Description:
The mulberry leaf pattern is alternate. They are simple, broadly ovate to roughly orbicular, 8 to 12 cm long, with a serrated margin. The flowers are small and inconspicuous. The trunk, bark and branches droop as the tree grows, and will require pruning for clearance.The wood and branches are susceptible to breakage as or [...]

Fig Ficus

Description:
Leaf -  deciduous leaves are palmate, deeply divided into 3 to 7 main lobes, and irregularly toothed on the margins. The blade is up to 10 inches in length and width, fairly thick, rough on the upper surface, softly hairy on the underside. Flower: small and inconspicuous Trunk / bark / branches: droop as the [...]

Elder Berry/Flower, Sambucus

Description:
Elder can be used in many ways. Firstly, the flowers are edible and make a good soft drink. And finally, the fruits produce a good jam, juice or wine. The leaves consist of 5-7 leaflets, in pairs with a single end leaflet. Each leaflet is elliptical with regular teeth and a sharp tip. The top [...]

Malus Sylvestris Crab Apple

Description:
Crab apple trees are quite uncommon in the wild. It is always difficult to distinguish them from the domesticated apple, due to cross-breeding. The leaves are alternate with a crooked and pointed tip. They vary in shape from round to oval. The underside of the leaves are smooth but can also be hairy, but not [...]

Cherry/Wild cherry, Prunus Cerasus/ Prunus avium

Description:
In warmer European countries it may make quite a large tree and is widely grown for timber. Though it is dispersed well by seeds called stones, it makes suckers whch are young trees growing from its roots. Leaves are alternate, 7-12 cm long with regular teeth and a pointed tip. The leaf top is hairless, [...]

Blackberry, Rubus Pedemontanus

Description:
Blackberries are perennial plants which bear biennial stems. They bear large palmately compound leaves with five or seven leaflets. The flower buds break to produce flowering laterals, which bear smaller leaves with three or five leaflets. First and second year shoots are usually spiny with numerous short curved very sharp thorns. Unmanaged mature plants form [...]

Common Apple, Malus domestica

Best location: Hampstead Heath, Kenwood house
Description:
The apple tree is a small and deciduous tree. It generally reaches 3 to 12 metres tall, with a broad, often densely twiggy crown. The leaves are alternately arranged simple ovals 5 to 12 cm long and 3 to 6 cm  broad. The grow on a 2 to 5 cm [...]