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Hi,
I am in the Us now and I took this photo of the most amazing tree turning red in the fall. Can you identify the tree please and tell me if it can grow in the Uk also?
Many thanks,
Thank you for all your answers.
I have taken a segment of the original picture and increased the size so I hope you can see the leaves clearly.




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Hi......sorry....no idea what it is but it really is spectacular...shall keep checking for an answer....:o)

2 Nov, 2009

 

Possibly one of the Acers... superb foliage.

2 Nov, 2009

 

Any chance of a leaf picture?

2 Nov, 2009

 

Its habit looks like a conifer.

3 Nov, 2009

 

I'm intrigued by the pale parts on the ends of each branch.And, yes, could we have a leaf close up?

3 Nov, 2009

 

Me too Volunteer... I agree Louise that in habit it looks like a conifer but don't think there is a red conifer - Bluespruce where are you?

3 Nov, 2009

 

Bluespruce would be 'red' with envy!! Or is it a premature plastic Xmas tree?

3 Nov, 2009

 

As Ruttiworral l says it 'turns red in the fall' I think we can discount it being a conifer... I'm still wondering about one of the acers but we really do need a leaf pix.

3 Nov, 2009

 

MG - there are one or two deciduous conifers (the larch and swamp cypress for example)

3 Nov, 2009

 

So beautiful

3 Nov, 2009

 

Very true Andrew all our larches have now lost their needles... ah well we will just have to wait for a leaf close up to be posted - or not :-) I have a vague recollection of seeing an image of a tree that looked like that but where, on all the gardening sites etc. I visit I have no idea!

3 Nov, 2009

 

There is also Metasequoia (Dawn redwood too).

They crossed my mind but still don't look quite right. The leaflets/leaves look too large for those.

Come on Rutiworrall, where is that leaf shot? :-)

My guess is still possibly a type of Taxodium, possibly T. nutans. This has the right habit with the youngest foliage last to turn in autumn at the branch tips.

3 Nov, 2009

 

Found this shot of a branch of Taxodium nutans in autumn.

http://www.stockphotopro.com/photo-thumbs-2/stockphotopro_04850TZU_pond_cypress_var_.jpg

3 Nov, 2009

 

Ive seen a similar conifer to this in the Spring which is dark green with the pale green tips.......as you say Bluespruce would know........you ought to pm him Rutiworrali.

3 Nov, 2009

 

I think you may have cracked it Fractal... well done!

3 Nov, 2009

 

As a fan of conifers (but not with the vast knowledge of Bluespruce) I know that they can be stunning and varied - but this definitely isn't a conifer. This looks like "Oxydendrum arboreum" (Sourwood or Sorrel tree). It is native to the eastern U.S. Some pictures and details are on http://www.horticulturalphoto.com/LB/Oxydendrum.html & http://www.collierarbor.com/aaFall05.php.

3 Nov, 2009

 

Aha! Bingo Longleaf. Thank you, I think you are right. I have looked at a few pics in autumn and the light tips appear to be the flower sprays, or the spent flower sprays.

I am familiar with it in that it is closely related to Pieris though deciduous but never seen it in autumn like this. Cracking good tree.

Saw one at Westonbirt a few summers ago but obviously still green.

Thanks.

3 Nov, 2009

 

I think this image is pretty conclusive!

http://discardedlies.com/images/102005%5B1%5D.JPG

3 Nov, 2009

 

Yes! He scores - he wins... Sorry Fractal not you but Longleaf :-) And... I am totally impressed at how you both worked out!

3 Nov, 2009

 

Well done longleaf - I didn't have a clue, even crossed my mind it wasn't real :0)

3 Nov, 2009

 

Bluespruce did you see there was a suggestion it was synthetic? You guys are amazing!

3 Nov, 2009

 

I want to thank you all for being so enthusiastic in trying to trace my tree and a special thanks to Fractal - you found it! Igt is exactly my tree.
The only problem is that when I go to your link I get a photo only so I still don't know the name of the tree, where it grows etc. etc. Would you be so kind and tell me what site you found it on?
Best wishes to you all,

3 Nov, 2009

 

Didn't Longleaf already say it's Oxydendrum arboreum, native to the eastern US.

4 Nov, 2009

 

Yes, and if you just googled the names suggested you'd get info and images from various sources anyway.

4 Nov, 2009

 

It really is quite spectacular. I wonder would it colour this well here?

22 Nov, 2009

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