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Anyone know what this is? “Appeared’ in my garden

  • 01-06-2024 07:10PM
    #1
    sapper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭


    This (what looks like a) tree appeared in my garden - didn’t notice it until last winter when I tried to remove/move it. Google is telling me it’s a maple but I didn’t plant it! Could it have just seeded itself somehow?

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  • #2
    Rows Grower
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    Could be a Sycamore.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #3
    John arse
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058354200/anyone-know-what-this-is-appeared-in-my-garden

    Call the special branch???



  • #4
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    A maple tree, possibly Norwegian



  • #5
    Kaybaykwah
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    Looks like a sugar maple leaf, but I don’t think it is going to give you enough sap to yield syrup. The conditions are pretty hard to come by in Ireland, not cold enough.



  • #6
    Jim_Hodge
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    It's a sycamore. Pull it out now, unless you have masses of room and it's well away from buildings.



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  • #7
    sapper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭sapper


    Oh wow! Thanks all - I was thinking I could shift it to the left a little into the corner and admire it! I had such a hard time trying to take it out a few months ago I thought it must have been something i planted and forgotten about….will have to take it out unfortunately… I actually have two of them which the internet tells me is not unusual



  • #8
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,808 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    It looks a bit 'spikey' to me to be a sycamore, but its certainly one of the family. The chances that you would want to keep it are pretty slim. Sycamores are definitely weed trees - they will grow anywhere (I have a very small one growing in a gutter and I have to work out how to get it out), there are a few sycamores around the garden and they produced young seedlings by the dozen.



  • #9
    billie1b
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    Norwegian Maple



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