This small tree was identified for me by my friends Jane Braham and Mike Lewis - who tell me that the foliage appears even paler when the leaves first open. Whitebeam is a native species, included in the same genus as Rowan and the Wild Service tree.
Uploaded to Geograph by Stefan Czapski on 25 May 2013
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