6 Weeks ago - 8 April - Goat Willow
4 Weeks ago - 16-24 April Purple Willow
2 weeks ago - 24 April Field Maple
0.0 weeks ago - Oak
1 Oak.
These are the male flowers . You can see the anthers.
No 2: Field Maple
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| Field Maple - Giggleswick's public children's playground field 24 April. Field Maple is at the northern edge of its natural distribution around here, but many have been planted as a recommended "natural tree to plant". |
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| Field Maple - Giggleswick's public children's playground field 24 April. |
No 3: Purple Willow:
This grows in gravel/shingle beside the Ribble
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| Salix purpurea |
I can think of ten or eleven different species of willow which grow withing exercise distance of Settle!!! Many of these hybridise. They are not easy.
It is easy to recognise a willow- They have simple leaves (i.e. not divided). The buds just have one budscale covering the whole bud. Other trees have several bud scales covering the buds.
The two willow here do have distinguishing features:
In willows the leaves are arranged alternate to each other, and so therefore are the buds. But in The Purple willow, the buds and leaves often look opposite.
The flowers of Purple Willow can look purple - but I failed to catch them looking purple. So I have put them under yellow green
Plan No 4: Goat Willow: Salix caprea 8 April
These are pictures of male trees near Stainforth. When young, before the anthers stick out they are used as "Pussy willow" in flower arrangements.
Goat willow has much broader leaves than other species. They are felty under the leaves. They can grow in ordinary dry soil whereas most other willows grow in wetter places.
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