Irish Trees
Irish Trees: click below
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Oak Pedunculate Oak Sessile Rowan Scots pine Strawberry tree Willow Wych elm Yew |
Wild cherry
Gean - crann silíní fiáin
(Prunus avium)
One of our most attractive trees, with its white or very pale pink flowers in spring, followed
by hanging cherries. The bark is also attractive, and the leaves provide autumn colour. Wild
cherry is very common in St. Johns Wood, Co. Roscommon.
Cherry is often found in old field hedgerows where it may have been planted by man, but is
also found in mixed deciduous woodland. The old farm trees may not be native in the sense
of ancient woodland, but they are part of our rural history, like crab apple and old varieties
of apple, pear, plum and damson, once grown in gardens and small orchards throughout the
country. It is often used as a decorative wood in joinery and furniture making.