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False Acacia
Flower
: Cream-white, pea-like flowers.
Fruit
: Brown pea-like pods, up to 4 inches long.
Leaves
: Deciduous. Dark green, pinnate leaves. 3 to 9 pairs of blunt, oval leaflets.
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Winter Aconite
Flower
: Cup-shaped flowers, up to 3cm wide. The flowers have large, deeply cut, leafy bracts at their bases.
Fruit
: Follicles which contain the seeds.
Leaves
: A perennial with deeply cut, glossy, hairless basal leaves. Throughout the British Isles, Winter Aconite is most common in the east of England and Scotland.
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Italian Alder
Flower
: The male and female flowers appear on separate trees. The yellowish-brown male catkins are pendulous and borne in clusters of 3 to 6 and are up to 10cm long. The male catkins appear before the leaves ...
Fruit
: The female flowers become woody and turn into the cone-like fruit. The fruit are overwintering. The cones are larger than most other Alder cone species, up to 2.5cm long.
Leaves
: A deciduous tree with dark green, alternate, glossy, heart-shaped leaves and finely serrated margins. Cordata (see Botanical Name) means 'heart-shaped'.
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Grey Alder
Flower
: Pendulous, red-brown and becoming yellow later (male catkins). Red, erect and cylindrical (female catkins). Male and female catkins present on same tree.
Fruit
: Wooded cones which persist on the tree throughout winter months.
Leaves
: Deciduous. Hairy, ovate and pointed, glossy, grey beneath.
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Green Alkanet
Flower
: Bright blue, 8-10mm, 5 petals.
Fruit
: 4 nutlets per flower, each having a ridged surface.
Leaves
: Hairy, broad, alternate leaves with deep veins and pointed tips. Leaves are smaller and without stalks towards the top.
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Crab Apple
Flower
: Pinkish white in small clusters, 5 petals.
Fruit
: Fruit is long stalked, small and round, no larger than 2 inches in diameter but usually much smaller. Colour is very variable.
Leaves
: Deciduous. Stalked, oval with serrated edges.
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Cultivated Apple
Flower
: Pinkish white in small clusters, 5 petals.
Fruit
: Large, fleshy and round. Can be green, yellow, pink, red or purple.
Leaves
: Deciduous, simple leaves growing alternate along the branches, serrated margins.
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Variegated Yellow Archangel
Flower
: Butter yellow flowers, in whorls up the stem.
Fruit
: Clusters of bell-shaped nutlets.
Leaves
: Dark green, long-stalked and heart-shaped. Mottled with conspicuous silvery blotches.
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Common Ash
Flower
: Petalless with tufts of purple-to-black stamens which turn green later.
Fruit
: Numerous hanging winged seeds which form clusters. The fruits of this tree are often called 'keys'.
Leaves
: Deciduous. Britain's only native tree with opposite, pinnate leaves. Leaflets are dark green and toothed.
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Mountain Ash
Flower
: White with cream-coloured anthers.
Fruit
: Tight clusters of red berries.
Leaves
: Deciduous. Similar to Common Ash leaves. Pinnate with toothed leaflets.
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Garden Asparagus
Flower
: Bell-shaped, pale green or yellowish flowers. Pollinated by bees.
Fruit
: A small, red berry, up to 1cm across. The seeds ripen in September and October.
Leaves
: A perennial herb with an erect, single stem. The shoots are sometimes known as 'spears'.
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Aunt Eliza
Flower
: The orange-brown flowers are about 6cm in length. They are arranged alternately along its zigzagged stems.
Fruit
: A 3-angled, green capsule, turning brown upon ripening.
Leaves
: A clump-forming perennial with olive green, deeply pleated, wiry leaves. The plant grows from a corm. Seldom found growing wild in the UK but not unheard of.
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Lemon Balm
Flower
: Flower spikes. The small white, inconspicuous flowers reach 1.5cm in diameter. Pollinated by bees.
Fruit
: A brown seed capsule. In fruit from August to October.
Leaves
: A hairy perennial with lemon-green leaves. The oval, pointed leaves darken with age. The leaves are simple, wrinkly and toothed. They are arranged along the stems in opposite pairs.
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Arrow Bamboo
Flower
: The flowers are never seen in the British Isles. Wind pollinated.
Fruit
: Never seen in fruit.
Leaves
: An evergreen perennial plant with large, long, linear, pointed, dark green, grass-like leaves. The stems are cane-like in appearance. Occasionally seen as a garden escape species growing wild in the U...
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Common Barberry
Flower
: Hanging yellow flowers. Insect-pollinated.
Fruit
: Red, globular berries. The seeds ripen in September and October.
Leaves
: Deciduous shrub whose leaves appear from March to November. The leaves are simple, oval and spiny-toothed.
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Golden Barberry
Flower
: Clusters of small golden yellow flowers. Insect pollinated.
Fruit
: Bluish-black berries. Its seeds ripen in August and September.
Leaves
: A spiny evergreen shrub whose leaves are simple, narrow and spiny-toothed. The branches are arching. The leaves are mid-green and alternate along its branches. Each leaf measures about 2cm in length. ...
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Chinese Barberry
Flower
: Yellow or orange flowers, tinged with red. In clusters of up to 25 flowers.
Fruit
: Purplish-black, elliptical berries, up to 6mm long. In fruit from July to November.
Leaves
: A dense bush with glossy, dark green, spiny, obovate leaves. The leaves are pale beneath. The branches contain long spines. The Gagnepain's Barberry (Berberis gagnepainii) is a similar looking shrub b...
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Gagnepain's Barberry
Flower
: Golden yellow flowers are produced in clusters of about 5 or 6 (but sometimes up to 12), borne on short shoots. Pollinated by insects.
Fruit
: Waxy, bluish-black, oblong fruit. 1cm in length. The seeds ripen in September and October.
Leaves
: A thorny shrub with simple, lanceolate, toothed leaves. The thorns on the branches are 3-spined. The teeth on the leaf margins are tipped by short spines too. Chinese Barberry (Berberis julianae) is s...
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Darwin's Barberry
Flower
: Small orange bell-shaped, hanging in clusters.
Fruit
: Small dark purple to black berries which ripen in summer.
Leaves
: Small and oval. The edges are spiny.
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Thunberg's Barberry
Flower
: Tiny pale yellow, insignificant flowers.
Fruit
: Orange-red ovoid berries with long stalks, each containing a single seed.
Leaves
: Deciduous shrub with green leaves that turn red in autumn. After the leaves have fallen off during the winter months, the spiny stems are revealed.
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Bearsbreech
Flower
: Tall spike of white flowers with purple veins.
Fruit
: An ovoid capsule which contains 2-4 black seeds.
Leaves
: Glossy green leaves, growing up to 60cm in length. The leaves are also pinnate with deep lobes, pointed but not spiny. A similar species called Spiny Bearsbreech (Acanthus spinosus) exists but is more...
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Common Beech
Flower
: Male and female yellowish-green catkins grow together on the same tree. Male catkins dangle loosely from stalks at the end of twigs. Female catkins exist in pairs and are surrounded by a cup, later tu...
Fruit
: The nuts are called 'beech mast' and are brown 3-sided nuts with a tough bristly husk on the outside.
Leaves
: Deciduous. Pointed leaf buds. Oval, up to 9cm long and pale green and silky when young, turning dark green later in the year. Hairless. Leaves turn yellow or orange in autumn.
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Copper Beech
Flower
: Male and female yellowish-green catkins grow together on the same tree. Male catkins dangle loosely from stalks at the end of twigs. Female catkins exist in pairs and are surrounded by a cup, later tu...
Fruit
: The brown nuts are called 'beech mast' and are 3-sided with a tough outer casing that is bristly on the outside.
Leaves
: Deciduous. Pointed leaf buds. Oval and hairless, up to 9cm long, pale to deep purple.
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Fern-leaf Beech
Flower
: Inconspicuous.
Fruit
: The nuts or 'beech mast' as they are known, are brown, 3-sided and have a tough bristly husk on their outer casing.
Leaves
: Deciduous. The leaves are more linear than the Common Beech and with large, prominent and deeply serrated margins. The leaves are fern-like in appearance after which the tree is named.
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Adria Bellflower
Flower
: Many violet blue, bell-shaped flowers, each is 2cm in diameter. Adria Bellflower looks quite similar to Trailing Bellflower (Campanula poscharskyana) but is darker in colour. The flowers of Adria Bell...
Fruit
: A capsule, containing numerous seeds.
Leaves
: The mid-green leaves are heart-shaped with jaggedly toothed margins. Perennial evergreen.
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