What sort of tree is this?

[pacuk01]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me what this tree is?


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[RATTER15]

As already stated above.

http://www.growsonyou...a_bignonioides/238765

[boxtops]

I'll go with the bean tree then - in which case it's very like - but not the same as - the lilacy one I have seen in Lewes.

[heathfield]

Anyone considered a flowering Mulberry?

http://www.google.co....=0CG0Q9QEwDw&dur=7008

[boxtops]

Now that DOES look like a conker tree!

[hammerman]

Boxtops....where in Lewes (The Grange ? im Lewes born and bred ) Foxglove trees are similar....but have a different growth habbit and the obvious lilac blue flowers in may.

Im head gardener for preston Rock Garden Opposite preston park in Brighton.....if you're ever there, pop over and i'll show you round.

[boxtops]

Thanks hammerman, I'm not often over in Brighton these days but thank you! I think it's in the Gun Gardens according to the interweb (I know it was in the area of the Grange gardens when I visited with my mother, it's a huge tall tree). It was many years ago though, it may not still be there.

[jomifl]

Boxtops, it looks so much like a conker tree that it may even be one! I have a mulberry tree in my garden....nothing like it.

[hammerman]

Jomifl, It's not a conker tree. Although the flowers are very similar, the leaves and growth are totally different.

[heathfield]

But which of the 16 varieties of mulberry tree do you have, Jomifl?