Please help - what species of tree is this?

[potatoarms]

Hello

Hoping someone here can help me.

I went to a local town and saw this tree today - thought it looked brill..

Do you know what species it is? Bugging me

Thanks
Potatoarms

 

[clayj]

The larch.*

* Name the source of this for 10 points.

(I don't really know what kind of tree it is.)

 

[Blue Velvet]

The larch.*

* Name the source of this for 10 points.

Monty Python... but which album?

On topic: It looks a little like the Macrocarpas that you get in New Zealand, but that's just a wild guess. I know nothing about trees.

 

[clayj]

Monty Python... but which album?

It was one of the Flying Circus episodes...

Is the above tree possibly a cedar?

 

[CanadaRAM]

It was one of the Flying Circus episodes...

Is the above tree possibly a cedar?

It's an evergreen certainly, a cedar is a good guess, but which? Not much chance of telling without a closeup photo.

You can google for plant identification, there are forums for plant identification which have people who are more fanatical than Mac users are about Macs...

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Anohter vote for some kind of cedar. <-- Maybe you can find the exact kind by some of the links the ever surprising Wikipedia.

 

[pknz]

I thought cedar was cheese

EDIT: Ok thats cheddar

 

[2nyRiggz]

yup an evergreen but i cant really tell from that far shot


Bless

 

[dcv]

I am fairly certain that is a Cedar tree.

 

[potatoarms]

Thanks ever so much There are some well clever people on here.

 

[EGT]

Oh no. Trees. I'm still recovering after being stranded in Eureka, CA for over a week. The locals were kind enough to take us on a tour of the logging factory and the surrounding Redwood forests. Amazing, totally amazing for the first day or so. But by the fourth day, it had got a tad boring.

I still love trees really. You can't beat a nice willow or an old beech.

 

[iSaint]

Did you get a good look at the tree close-up? Did you look at the leaves? Did it have cones, like small pine-cones?

Actually, clayj, it does look like a Larch, a common conifer (has cones for seeds/contains seeds) in England. It's flat top can be confusing, but it's possible it's an older tree so many limbs have fallen or it's been trimmed many times.

Check out The Royal Forestry Society for more information. Hopefully, you'll get a fellow Brit to better identify the tree.

 

[clayj]

Did you get a good look at the tree close-up? Did you look at the leaves? Did it have cones, like small pine-cones?

Actually, clayj, it does look like a Larch, a common conifer (has cones for seeds/contains seeds) in England. It's flat top can be confusing, but it's possible it's an older tree so many limbs have fallen or it's been trimmed many times.

Check out The Royal Forestry Society for more information. Hopefully, you'll get a fellow Brit to better identify the tree.

It would be really funny if, in the process of making a joke, I actually happened to get the right answer.

 

[dcv]

Well I might be wrong and perhaps it is a Larch or whatever, but it has the very characteristic shape of a Cedar tree (no googling involved; the Cedar has always been a favourite tree of mine and there are several around the Bucks/Berks counties)

 

[clayj]

Well I might be wrong and perhaps it is a Larch or whatever, but it has the very characteristic shape of a Cedar tree (no googling involved; the Cedar has always been a favourite tree of mine and there are several around the Bucks/Berks counties)

I agree... it's got that flattened-out appearance, like a pine tree that's been run through a press.

 

[ssj300]

if that tree is in central park, its the central park tree