Hello everyone,

I am trying to ID a tree found in a friend's garden, and I need some help, please. *puppy eyes*

It appears to be a self-sown tree - it's in a very odd location, by the oil tank, ie not where you would plant something ornamental - and is currently only about 12' high.

The leaves are cordate (hope I'm getting these terms right: heart-shaped) and the leaf margins are strongly toothed. The leaves are matt, light green in colour, and it's definitely not Lime (Tilia), although the style of the veins is similair: the stalk end of the leaf is even, not uneven.

The leaves are held on stalks, and are arranged more or less alternately along the branches, but in bunches of two or three, not singly.

I'm certain it's not any sort of cherry!

I have taken a couple of photos, but I can't upload them (and I have read the stern warnings about not embedding them) yet: I am hoping that someone out there might recognise the tree from the description. If not, when I get back on Monday I will upload the photos and add a link. Sorry to be a nuisance, I know it's easier to ID from photos: it's the leaves in bunches that I thought might be the pointer.

And as it's apparently self-sown, it's probably really common!

You guys have been a great help in the past, I hope that you might be able to throw some suggestions my way. I've tried googling the search terms and checking "images" for page after page, without luck.

I'm going off-line now, so thank you for reading, and I hope that you can leave me some suggestions.

Thank you in advance.

Rachel