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When you’ve identified your tree, why not see if it is mapped on Treezilla, and if not, add it to the map. You can seethe map, make an account and add trees at [www.treezilla.org](www.treezilla.org or download the Android or)[ or download the Android or](www.treezilla.org or download the Android or) iPhone app.  \nHow to use this guide  \nThis key uses leaves as the principal means by which to identify a tree, so it will work best when the tree is in leaf (i.e. Spring to Autumn) . Through the winter you may find fallen leaves that you can use.  \nLeaves can vary in size, colour and shape even when taken from the same tree, so we recommend that when trying to identify an individual tree you take a number of leaves from the same tree.  \nThis resource provides identification guidance for 53 of the most common urban tree species in Great Britain and Ireland. If you are unable to find your species in this guide then you can get additional identification help using one of the resources listed below.  \nTrees in this guide  \nThis guide includes 53 species. These have been selected as the most common from a database of over 1 million urban trees from across the UK. Because the types of trees planted vary a lot from one place to another, you may find in your neighbourhood that there are trees that aren’t listed in this key.  \nAt various points in the key you will be asked‘Is it one of these commonly occurring species?’ Potentially many different types of trees that could be included. But we have only shown you the most common ones.  \nIdentifying urban trees  \nThere are about 35 native tree species in the UK (depending on what you define as a tree) but many more species and varieties are planted in towns and cities. Lots of these are man-made cultivars or hybrids that are selected because they are attractive or especially well suited to growing in urban conditions. Many of these can only be reliably distinguished by experts or with detailed field guides or keys. If you are using this key you are probably relatively new to identifying trees, but don’t be put off by the variety of trees that might exist!  \nGetting an accurate identification to genus or species is more important than recording the precise variety. Some types of tree, such as willows, apples or ornamental cherries can be very difficult to distinguish, so in this guide we help you to record just the genus, and not species or variety.  \nNaming trees  \nTrees, like other plants, have common and scientific names. Because common names vary from place to place, the scientific (or ‘Latin’) name is usually regarded as the definitive name for a tree. The scientific name is made up of several components. You can think of it like a person’s name in reverse: a person’s surname tells you who they are related to, and their first name identifies them as an individual.  \nFor scientific names it’s the other way round: the first part of the scientific name specifies the Genus, all plants in the same genus are related. This is followed by the Species name, which distinguishes the different species. For example, the trees Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) and Norway Maple (Acer platanoides) are in the same genus, Acer, but have different species names.  \nVarieties or cultivars are usually specified by a third part of the name. Hybrids can be indicated with an x between the genus and species name, or in the odd case of Leyland cypress (x Cuprocyparis leylandii) at the start. The scientific name is always written in italics, with the genus name beginning with a capital letter and the species name a lowercase letter.  \nOf course you don’t need to learn the scientific names, and many people find it tricky to begin with, but it can help to start to remember which species are related","cbCaibtxLTcrNTUV","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibtxLTcrNTUV","pdf",4812517,59,"English","# How to use this guide\n## Trees in this guide\n## Identifying urban trees\n## Naming trees\n## Additional resources","[{\"question\":\"What should I use to identify a tree with this guide?\",\"answer\":\"Use leaves as the principal means of identification. The guide works best when the tree is in leaf (Spring to Autumn), and fallen leaves in winter can also help.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the guide focus on identifying genus rather than variety or species?\",\"answer\":\"Some trees are hard to distinguish accurately. 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