I came across this small flowering tree on the edge of a warehouse site
(presumably an amenity planting).

http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot27.jpg
http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot28.jpg

Anyone recognise it?
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

On Sat, 15 May 2010 10:18:50 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:

I came across this small flowering tree on the edge of a warehouse site
(presumably an amenity planting).

http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot27.jpg
http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot28.jpg

Anyone recognise it?

Is it some form of eleagnus? I ssaw a similar one many years ago at a
garden. Is this one scented? That was what drew us to it. The
flowers and leaves are similar I think.

Pam in Bristol

On 15 May, 12:54, Janet Baraclough
wrote:
The message
from Stewart Robert Hinsley contains these words:

I came across this small flowering tree on the edge of a warehouse site
(presumably an amenity planting).
* *http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot27.jpg
* *http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot28.jpg
Anyone recognise it?

*eleagnus angustifiolia?

Janet

I'd say it's Elaeagnus pungens
Angustifolia has yellow flowers.
David Hill

On 15 May, 16:54, Dave Hill wrote:
On 15 May, 12:54, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

The message
from Stewart Robert Hinsley contains these words:

I came across this small flowering tree on the edge of a warehouse site
(presumably an amenity planting).
* *http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot27.jpg
* *http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot28.jpg
Anyone recognise it?

*eleagnus angustifiolia?

Janet

I'd say it's Elaeagnus pungens
Angustifolia has yellow flowers.
David Hill

I meant to add that it has taken you quite a time to ask the question
as they flower in the Autumn.
David

"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message
...
I came across this small flowering tree on the edge of a warehouse site
(presumably an amenity planting).

http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot27.jpg
http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot28.jpg

Anyone recognise it?

A small request. Could you please try to avoid linking to what appears to
be your original photograph, as it is such a large size it take quite a time
to download. We aren't all on 20Mb broadband!

If you could open and save it as a lower resolution jpg at about 10% of the
size, and link to that, it would be helpful. We really will not see the
difference on our monitors. You could always include a link to the original
if you considered the extra detail was important - we could download the
file and open it in a graphics program to view that detail.

--

Jeff

In message
,
Dave Hill writes
On 15 May, 16:54, Dave Hill wrote:
On 15 May, 12:54, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

The message
from Stewart Robert Hinsley contains
these words:

I came across this small flowering tree on the edge of a warehouse site
(presumably an amenity planting).
* *http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot27.jpg
* *http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot28.jpg
Anyone recognise it?

*eleagnus angustifiolia?

Janet

I'd say it's Elaeagnus pungens
Angustifolia has yellow flowers.
David Hill

I meant to add that it has taken you quite a time to ask the question
as they flower in the Autumn.
David

It was photographed last Thursday.

However, apart from the impression that this tree was deciduous,
Elaeagnus pungens doesn't look a bad match. I'll dig round that genus
and see if anything else comes up.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

On Sat, 15 May 2010 20:44:26 +0100, "Jeff Layman"
wrote:

A small request. Could you please try to avoid linking to what appears to
be your original photograph, as it is such a large size it take quite a time
to download. We aren't all on 20Mb broadband!

It downloaded quite quickly for me and I only have at best 2Mb.

Pam in Bristol

In message
,
Dave Hill writes
On 15 May, 16:54, Dave Hill wrote:
On 15 May, 12:54, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

The message
from Stewart Robert Hinsley contains
these words:

I came across this small flowering tree on the edge of a warehouse site
(presumably an amenity planting).
* *http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot27.jpg
* *http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot28.jpg
Anyone recognise it?

*eleagnus angustifiolia?

Janet

I'd say it's Elaeagnus pungens
Angustifolia has yellow flowers.
David Hill

I meant to add that it has taken you quite a time to ask the question
as they flower in the Autumn.
David

Since you've pointed me in the direction of Elaeagnus (the only one I
knew was x ebbingei, and I wasn't even certain about that one) I've been
to the Hillier Manual, and Google image search.

It looks as if it is Elaeagnus multiflora, which flowers in April and
May, and is better known for its "blood-red" berries borne a month or
two later.

Thanks.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

It was photographed last Thursday.

However, apart from the *impression that this tree was deciduous,
Elaeagnus pungens doesn't look a bad match. I'll dig round that genus
and see if anything else comes up.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley- Hide quoted text -

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It's probably Elaeagnus x ebbingei then.
David Hill

On Sat, 15 May 2010 11:35:59 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

On Sat, 15 May 2010 10:18:50 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:

I came across this small flowering tree on the edge of a warehouse site
(presumably an amenity planting).

http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot27.jpg
http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot28.jpg

Anyone recognise it?

Is it some form of eleagnus? I ssaw a similar one many years ago at a
garden. Is this one scented? That was what drew us to it. The
flowers and leaves are similar I think.

Pam in Bristol

Just remembered it was at Hadspen, in the Nori Pope days, that I saw
and smelled it.

Pam in Bristol

In message , Pam Moore
writes
On Sat, 15 May 2010 10:18:50 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:

I came across this small flowering tree on the edge of a warehouse site
(presumably an amenity planting).

http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot27.jpg
http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot28.jpg

Anyone recognise it?

Is it some form of eleagnus? I ssaw a similar one many years ago at a
garden. Is this one scented? That was what drew us to it. The
flowers and leaves are similar I think.

Pam in Bristol

I didn't notice any scent, but as the flowers haven't yet opened perhaps
it shouldn't have been expected.

But, yes, it seems to be an Elaeagnus, E. multiflora in particular.
Wikipedia tells me that this is the source of the gumi berry.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

In message , Stewart Robert Hinsley
writes
In message , Pam Moore
writes
On Sat, 15 May 2010 10:18:50 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:

I came across this small flowering tree on the edge of a warehouse site
(presumably an amenity planting).

http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot27.jpg
http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Dicot28.jpg

Anyone recognise it?

Is it some form of eleagnus? I ssaw a similar one many years ago at a
garden. Is this one scented? That was what drew us to it. The
flowers and leaves are similar I think.

Pam in Bristol

I didn't notice any scent, but as the flowers haven't yet opened
perhaps it shouldn't have been expected.

But, yes, it seems to be an Elaeagnus, E. multiflora in particular.
Wikipedia tells me that this is the source of the gumi berry.

Probably just a coincidence, but it's on a site now occupied by a
pharmaceutical company.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

"Pam Moore" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 15 May 2010 20:44:26 +0100, "Jeff Layman"
wrote:

A small request. Could you please try to avoid linking to what appears to
be your original photograph, as it is such a large size it take quite a
time
to download. We aren't all on 20Mb broadband!

It downloaded quite quickly for me and I only have at best 2Mb.


I'd love to get 2Mb...

--

Jeff