Pleas ID this Tree

wiseowl please can you add a really clear close up of the flowers...or is it the leaves.?
Cannot tell ...even when I zoom in.
Thanks .
S.S

 

Got a feeling those white bits arn't flowers?

 

Possibly a white poplar (populus alba) Woo. We have one or two in the garden at work and they're always one of the last trees to come into leaf. The bark and habit look about right for white poplar too.

 

If it is white poplar, the leaves are heart-shaped, and very fragrant. I know I am biased (we had a beautiful white poplar tree when I was young), but it is a very sweet, and distinctive smell.

The more mature trees have a very coarse, sort of stretched hexagonal look. I will have a look tomorrow at the White poplars on my regular dog-walk. I think ours are showing leaves. Will take pics of leaf progress, and also of younger trees, if I can spot some....

(The flowers are like very loose pussy willow, about 1-2" long, and flexible - a soot grey, with darker stem, and they are in flower now)

...glad I admitted to being besotted with the tree at the start!

 

Sorry for the delay, my phone had a flat battery...

Walking through the woods during the past few days, all of our trees are out, even the walnut. Oak, ash, beech, chestnut (both kinds), sycamore, birch, hawthorn in flower, and the poplars.

I couldn't find any young trees but here are some leaves, although I realise it is a useless photo (sycamore in the foreground)
Most of the trees are very, very tall, with leaves at the top of the canopy. I am nearly 6', but that's no use against the scale of these trees. Strange that I couldn't find any young trees. Our poplar was always trying to reproduce with suckers all across the lawn...

bark of nature trees

and the very distinctive 'twiglet' twig shape.

I hope this is of help

 

twig has to be ash, its not off the tree in question though is it

 

One of the disadvantages of mixed woodland is that it is, well, mixed!

I remember that the twigs were quite distinctive, from my childhood. Then saw v distinctive twig on ground. 2+2=ooh, 7? on a bad day. And yes, it was a bad day, as my old lad Harley was having real difficulties with his hind legs, and was stumbling all over the place. Also made it difficult to take photos!!

 

Ok, maybe I'm not going mad after all....

We had some winds last night. So there were some branches down on the path this morning.

Here are some "twiglet" twigs, with leaves. I'm guessing a poplar hybrid? Some of the trees have leaves this size (about 2" across), some are a lot bigger....

 

They are lovely trees to look at, and make a gorgeous "whisper" sound as the wind goes through the branches - the slightest breeze makes them shimmer...

In the local hereford dialect, they are called "Sally" trees. No idea why, but it meant that my dad was convinced that our tree was a willow (as in salix) for many years, despite my protestations, and showing him the pages of our little "observer book of trees".... Ah, memories!