Ash
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Fraxinus excelsior
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April-May, before the leaves
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A deciduous tree of woodland, scrub and hedgerows, especially on moist, basic soils, but also frequent on rock scars and cliffs, stabilised scree and the grikes of limestone pavement. It can tolerate periodically waterlogged soils, being found around springs and in Alnus and Salix carr. In managed woodland it may be grown as a timber tree or coppice. It is a rapid coloniser of waste ground, disused quarries and railway banks. 0-585 m (Cwm Idwal, Caerns.
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Privet
(Wild Privet)
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Ligustrum vulgare
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June-July
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A deciduous to semi-evergreen shrub found as a native in hedgerows, woodland and scrub, preferring well-drained, calcareous or base-rich soils. It is also often planted, particularly in hedges and woodland, and occurs as a garden escape and a relic of cultivation. 0-490 m (Craig y Cilau, Brecs.).
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English Walnut
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Juglans regia
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Flowers in June, seeds ripen in October
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A large deciduous tree, commonly planted in urban areas and sometimes also in the wild in secondary woodland and hedgerows, and on river banks, field-borders and roadsides. It is often self-sown or buried by grey squirrels, especially in the south and west, with plants appearing on waste ground, in copses, rough grassland, gravel-pits and on railway embankments. Lowland. It cannot grow in the shade. What plants grow with English Walnut.
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