More tree clues on the ground.

Following my 'clues on the path' posting of 27th March, here are some more photos of bits and pieces on the ground at Filnore Woods, which tell you about the trees above.  

Last year's ASH keys have been dropping in profusion since autumn and baby ash trees are germinating all over.

A lot of trees produce catkins, which is a bit confusing, but you can distinguish them a bit by when they appear.  The hazel catkins are pretty well all gone by now  but  these long, green ones are from the ALDER trees at post 20 near the 'white house'. 

Round near post 15 in the old tree nursery 

HORNBEAMS are shedding these knobbly, yellow jobs

(Poplars also have catkins, usually red, but they are still on the trees for the most part.)

Another give-away is that pale green confetti which is the fruits of the ELM.  

You can see the seed as a dot in the centre of each one.

White confetti, particularly dense on the path above the steps near post 6, is made of millions of tiny BLACKTHORN petals

And its bigger relative, the WILD CHERRY drops whole flowers.

These yellow flowers are from the NORWAY MAPLE .. .. ..

.. .. .. but most of them are still on the tree.

And last of all, whatever makes these young shoots of HORSE CHESTNUT 

fall off on to the ground?

Well it's squirrels.  As far as they are concerned horse chestnut shoots are better than asparagus and they are not fussy about where they drop the tops of the shoots they have nibbled.