A year (nearly) on, I know exactly what this is, but find it really interesting to look back and see how clueless I was about plants. I'm sure in a year's time I'll look back on posts I made now and be amazed at how clueless I am at the moment about plants...
Outside Osterley tube station there's a weird tree. It's paler than the other trees along the A4 - a sort of lime green. It was only this week that I noticed the leaves:
Yes, I actually picked a leaf, brought it home and photographed it - on some very fetching Tesco kitchen roll in fact. It looks like a Ginkgo. Are there any botanists out there who could confirm this? I've had a look at some of the photos online and it looks very similar - the leaves certainly resemble those on my maidenhair fern, and as the Ginkgo is also called the maidenhair tree, that makes sense. But they do not bifurcate, which is what makes me wonder. The veins are definitely radiating though.
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