Betula pendula (UK)

Betula pendula Roth, Tent. Fl. Germ. 1: 405 (1788) (syn: Betula alba var. pendula (Roth) St.-Lag. ; Betula alba lusus pendula (Roth) Regel ; Betula alba var. pendula (Roth) W.T.Aiton);
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Temp. Eurasia, NW. Africa, Alaska to Canada: Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Argentina South, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Russia, China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, Manitoba, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Northwest Territories, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Ontario, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Romania, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, Sicilia, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tuva, Türkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Yakutiya, Yukon; Introduced into: Argentina Northeast, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tasmania, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin as per POWO;
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SK 3522 28 May 2022: 3 very high res. images.

Location: Eden Project, Cornwall, UK
Altitude: 60m.
Date: 03 April 2022
Habit : Cultivated
Carpinus betulus L. ??

Sorry but the leaf shape looks completely wrong for Carpinus betulus…. common name Hornbeam.
Veins and leaf edges are different in Hornbeam.
I would have said Betula sp… a birch tree.
http://www.tree-guide.com/european-hornbeam
Google search


I agree with …


These are my pics of Carpinus betula:
Young leaves, mature leaves, catkins and seed.
Betula…too hard for me to say which sp.

I guess it could be Carpinus betulus L. !


leaves seem like Betula alnoides.
if tree trunk pics available i can differentiate it Carpinus or Betula.


here is the picture of Carpinus vimnea leaves


I think it is different.


Yes, appears so as per these images.


 

 


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References:
POWO

Updated on August 24, 2025

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