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Pepper Tree in FP?
Google can't help, tree ID sites have drawn a blank, does anyone on HoL know what this tree in Finsbury Park is? The pigeons love it. Is it a pepper tree?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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The pepper plants I've see growing in Asia are more like vines that need something to grow up. So I don't think it's pepper.
If the leaves are evergreen, it might be summer holly.
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Permalink Reply by Maddy on
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There was one of these (summer holly) in FP that came down in the storms last winter, along with a couple of other medium-sized trees.
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Permalink Reply by Stephen Middleton on
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Looks a little like Portuguese Laurel with unripe berries, but bark a bit dark. Suggestion of Tetradium from Des McKenzie on twitter. Whereabouts in Finsbury Park is this tree?
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Would pop down to have a look at it, but no reply as yet....
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Been up close to the tree and it is a Portuguese Laurel. There was a young Wood Pigeon eating the berries, did find one or two black berries and bark is lighter than it appears in the pictures although a bit rugged - perhaps an older tree.
Also big bonus, met Annee there by chance....
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A local tree buff Paul Wood @TheStreetTree (of Street Trees of London fame) also went down and had a look today and confirmed the Portuguese Laurel ID and took these pictures: https://twitter.com/TheStreetTree/status/1035560386911772672
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Well done Stephen. Suddenly everything’s Portuguese down that way.
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