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Today the sun has struggled out and is gaining confidence with every passing minute. It makes the fresh new leaves look ever brighter and there is a sense of burgeoning life waiting just below the surface to spring forth.
Every Spring there are trees covered in white blossom in the forest. Many times I've picked a sprig and brought it home to identify. I've always forgotten its name by the next year! This year I wondered if photographing it would help me to memorise it.
It is (I think) the Common Wild Cherry or Gean.
It is a good furniture timber and is valued as a turnery wood for items like bowls.
Foresters like to see it growing on the edges of plantations as it suckers freely and coppices when cut.
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