I cut and cleared a large tree yesterday, but not sure what it is. About 20 - 25m high, straight 10m trunk, grey smooth bark with pale patches, wood almost white. It’s not ash, alder, beech, silver birch, oak, sycamore or chestnut. Thought it might be hornbeam, but it is a bit too big. Not sure about poplars, but the bark is wrong.
Spent hours today on tinterweb and still can’t decide. This is a pic of a couple of younger, similar trees. Leaning towards some type of poplar hybrid…
Shame that you don’t have any photos of the tree in leaf as it would be easier to identify. I have clicked onto Google images and marked … identifying tree trunks…lots of photos there so maybe you can find one similar. Good luck
Sorry, no leaves yet:thinking:. And that one was a fallen tree now been cut up for firewood. Plenty more like it around, so when in leaf I will post a pic. I reckon it is/was a white poplar, but happy to be corrected .