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http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2d9d72x&s=4
I took this photo last August on the grounds of Blarney castle, Co.
Cork, Ireland.
It's quite a good sized tree, I just don't have the full tree in a
photo.
I've been asked several times what it is .

Also, I noticed whilst there that they do have several plants labelled
(but alas, not that one *perhaps). For when I next go back (I'm in
Belgium) does anyone know of the existence of a sort of plants map for
the grounds of Blarney Castle?

Thanks in advance.

What sized pic did you put up FGS? It's taken five minutes to load - so
far - at 45 Kbps

194 one of the smaller setting on my camera, so that I don't run out
of space


general or is slow loading usual for tinypic.com? /general

dunno


Could it perhaps be a Spanish Chestnut (Castanea sativa) which is not
unknown in Ireland?

Leaves of the tree in the pic are pinnate - it looks more like a walnut
to me, though the leaves seem overlarge for that. Leaves are not deeply
serrated enough for sweet (Spanish) chestnut, whose leaves are single,
and sweet chestnut's are more of a viridian tint.

Can't comment about it's wingnutness as I haven't met this one.

At first I also thought it was walnutish..

Pterocarya is one of the genera of Juglandaceae (walnut family).

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Stewart Robert Hinsley