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Side by side: species that look alike

English oak or sessile oak, sweet chestnut or horse chestnut? For each pair the difference in one sentence, a table with leaves, flowers, fruit and bark side by side, photos of both and what it means for your garden.

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English oak or sessile oak · reviewed
Sweet chestnut or horse chestnut · reviewed
Beech or hornbeam · reviewed
Sycamore or Norway maple · reviewed
Large-leaved lime or small-leaved lime · reviewed
Common alder or grey alder · reviewed
Silver birch or downy birch · reviewed
White willow or crack willow · reviewed
Scots pine or black pine · reviewed
European larch or Japanese larch · reviewed
Norway spruce or European silver fir · reviewed
Yew or European silver fir · reviewed
Thuja or Lawson cypress · reviewed
London plane or sycamore · reviewed
Walnut or tree of heaven · reviewed
Horse chestnut or red horse chestnut · reviewed
Bird cherry or black cherry · reviewed
Wild cherry or Japanese cherry · reviewed
Apple tree or pear tree · reviewed
Wild cherry or sour cherry · reviewed
Hawthorn or Midland hawthorn · reviewed
Blackthorn or hawthorn · reviewed
Blackthorn or cherry plum · reviewed
Elder or red-berried elder · reviewed
Ash or rowan · reviewed
Holly or Japanese holly · reviewed
Box or Japanese holly · reviewed
Garden privet or wild privet · reviewed
Bay laurel or cherry laurel · reviewed
Hazel or alder · reviewed
Raspberry or bramble · reviewed
Redcurrant or blackcurrant · reviewed
Common ivy or Virginia creeper · reviewed
Common honeysuckle or Japanese honeysuckle · reviewed
Dog rose or Japanese rose · reviewed
Broom or gorse · reviewed
Forsythia or cornelian cherry · reviewed
Heather or cross-leaved heath · reviewed
Lavender or rosemary · reviewed
Hydrangea or panicled hydrangea · reviewed
Redcurrant or mountain currant · reviewed
Apricot or almond · reviewed
Apricot or plum · reviewed
Mountain currant or gooseberry · reviewed
Laurustinus or guelder rose · reviewed
Laurustinus or garden privet · reviewed
Almond or peach · reviewed
Almond willow or white willow · reviewed
Sweetgum or sycamore · reviewed
Sweetgum or London plane · reviewed
Sweetgum or red maple · reviewed
Snowy mespilus or black chokeberry · reviewed
Red oak or Turkey oak · reviewed
Tulip tree or magnolia · reviewed
Foxglove tree or Indian bean tree · reviewed
Apple or nashi pear · reviewed
Apple or plum · reviewed
Apple or crab apple · reviewed
Atlas cedar or deodar · reviewed
Bamboo or Himalayan honeysuckle · reviewed
Bamboo or sacred bamboo · reviewed
Bearberry or cowberry · reviewed
Beech or Persian ironwood · reviewed
Purple willow or osier · reviewed
Purple willow or white willow · reviewed
Bittersweet or duke of Argyll’s teaplant · reviewed
Bittersweet or white bryony · reviewed
Ninebark or guelder rose · reviewed
Ninebark or smoke-tree · reviewed
Highbush blueberry or honeyberry · reviewed
Bilberry or bog bilberry · reviewed
Bilberry or cowberry · reviewed
Golden rain tree or tree of heaven · reviewed
Golden rain tree or false acacia · reviewed
Mock orange or deutzia · reviewed
Mock orange or common jasmine · reviewed
Mock orange or Mexican orange blossom · reviewed
Mock orange or weigela · reviewed
Turkish hazel or hornbeam · reviewed
Turkish hazel or hazel · reviewed
Traveller’s joy or Russian vine · reviewed
Field-rose or dog rose · reviewed
Goat willow or eared willow · reviewed
Goat willow or osier · reviewed
Goat willow or creeping willow · reviewed
Goat willow or whitebeam · reviewed
Bramble or dog rose · reviewed
Bramble or Japanese wineberry · reviewed
Spotted laurel or cherry laurel · reviewed
Spotted laurel or Japanese aralia · reviewed
Box or box-leaved honeysuckle · reviewed
Box or garden privet · reviewed
Lawson cypress or Leyland cypress · reviewed
Lawson cypress or western red cedar · reviewed
Lawson cypress or northern white cedar · reviewed
Camellia or cherry laurel · reviewed
Camellia or rhododendron · reviewed
Hybrid black poplar or aspen · reviewed
Hybrid black poplar or black poplar · reviewed
Californian lilac or common lilac · reviewed
Californian lilac or butterfly bush · reviewed
Cedar or European larch · reviewed
Chinese wisteria or common laburnum · reviewed
Chinese wisteria or Japanese wisteria · reviewed
Chinese elm or field elm · reviewed
Chinese elm or Japanese zelkova · reviewed
Cotoneaster or spiraea · reviewed
Cotoneaster or firethorn · reviewed
Deutzia or weigela · reviewed
Sea buckthorn or gorse · reviewed
Sea buckthorn or osier · reviewed
Sea buckthorn or oleaster · reviewed
Sea buckthorn or tree groundsel · reviewed
Burnet rose or sweet-briar · reviewed
Burnet rose or dog rose · reviewed
Common jasmine or star jasmine · reviewed
Common jasmine or winter jasmine · reviewed
English lavender or lavender-cotton · reviewed
Garden thyme or rosemary · reviewed
Hawthorn or firethorn · reviewed
Wild service tree or field maple · reviewed
Wild service tree or Swedish whitebeam · reviewed
Ash or elder · reviewed
Ash or tree of heaven · reviewed
Ash or Japanese pagoda tree · reviewed
Ash or manna ash · reviewed
Ash or box elder · reviewed
Escallonia or box-leaved honeysuckle · reviewed
Escallonia or oleaster · reviewed
Norway spruce or Serbian spruce · reviewed
Norway spruce or Sitka spruce · reviewed
European white elm or field elm · reviewed
European white elm or wych elm · reviewed
Forsythia or Japanese kerria · reviewed
Forsythia or winter hazel · reviewed
Forsythia or winter jasmine · reviewed
Raspberry or dog rose · reviewed
Raspberry or Japanese wineberry · reviewed
Bog-myrtle or eared willow · reviewed
Guelder rose or Japanese snowball · reviewed
Guelder rose or field maple · reviewed
Guelder rose or red-berried elder · reviewed
Guelder rose or wayfaring-tree · reviewed
Cornelian cherry or common dogwood · reviewed
Eared willow or grey willow · reviewed
Winged spindle or spindle · reviewed
Cross-leaved heath or crowberry · reviewed
Cross-leaved heath or winter heath · reviewed
European silver fir or Nordmann fir · reviewed
Field elm or Dutch elm · reviewed
Field elm or Japanese zelkova · reviewed
Field elm or wych elm · reviewed
Field elm or field maple · reviewed
Photinia or cherry laurel · reviewed
Photinia or Japanese pieris · reviewed
Grey poplar or aspen · reviewed
Grey poplar or white poplar · reviewed
American cranberry or cowberry · reviewed
Hornbeam or hop-hornbeam · reviewed
Hornbeam or elm · reviewed
Hornbeam or Japanese zelkova · reviewed
Hornbeam or grey alder · reviewed
Hazel or hop-hornbeam · reviewed
Hazel or elm · reviewed
Hazel or filbert · reviewed
Hazel or wych elm · reviewed
Hazel or winter hazel · reviewed
Hazel or witch hazel · reviewed
Hazel or large-leaved lime · reviewed
White bryony or hop · reviewed
Sacred bamboo or Oregon grape · reviewed
Deodar or cedar of Lebanon · reviewed
Dutch elm or wych elm · reviewed
Common lime or Caucasian lime · reviewed
Common lime or small-leaved lime · reviewed
Common lime or large-leaved lime · reviewed
Japanese pagoda tree or false acacia · reviewed
Hop or grapevine · reviewed
Hydrangea or climbing hydrangea · reviewed
Holly or cherry laurel · reviewed
Holly or Oregon grape · reviewed
Holly or holly olive · reviewed
Holly or holm oak · reviewed
Japanese barberry or gooseberry · reviewed
Japanese maple or silver maple · reviewed
Japanese honeysuckle or perfoliate honeysuckle · reviewed
Japanese spindle or spindle · reviewed
Japanese snowball or wayfaring-tree · reviewed
Common juniper or ornamental juniper · reviewed
Jostaberry or gooseberry · reviewed
Jostaberry or blackcurrant · reviewed
Judas tree or katsura tree · reviewed
Katsura tree or small-leaved lime · reviewed
Katsura tree or handkerchief tree · reviewed
Osier or creeping willow · reviewed
Cherry plum or plum · reviewed
Kiwi fruit or hardy kiwi · reviewed
Kiwi fruit or grapevine · reviewed
Hardy kiwi or grapevine · reviewed
Lesser periwinkle or common ivy · reviewed
Climbing hydrangea or common ivy · reviewed
Common ivy or star jasmine · reviewed
Common ivy or Japanese aralia · reviewed
Crowberry or heather · reviewed
Crack willow or bay willow · reviewed
Caucasian lime or small-leaved lime · reviewed
Cork oak or holm oak · reviewed
Quince or medlar · reviewed
Quince or flowering quince · reviewed
Bay laurel or bay willow · reviewed
Cherry laurel or oleaster · reviewed
Cherry laurel or leatherleaf viburnum · reviewed
Cherry laurel or rhododendron · reviewed
Cherry laurel or Japanese skimmia · reviewed
Japanese pieris or Japanese skimmia · reviewed
Thuja or Leyland cypress · reviewed
Thuja or ornamental juniper · reviewed
Oregon grape or holly olive · reviewed
Giant redwood or dawn redwood · reviewed
Whitebeam or Swedish whitebeam · reviewed
Mexican orange blossom or Japanese skimmia · reviewed
Swamp cypress or dawn redwood · reviewed
Norway maple or London plane · reviewed
Norway maple or field maple · reviewed
Olive tree or oleaster · reviewed
Oleaster or tree groundsel · reviewed
Pear or wild pear · reviewed
Peach or white willow · reviewed
Peach or sweet chestnut · reviewed
Persian ironwood or witch hazel · reviewed
London plane or fig · reviewed
Manna ash or rowan · reviewed
Plum or blackthorn · reviewed
Plum or wild cherry · reviewed
Western red cedar or northern white cedar · reviewed
Leatherleaf viburnum or wayfaring-tree · reviewed
False acacia or honey locust · reviewed
Red maple or silver maple · reviewed
Fly honeysuckle or snowberry · reviewed
Common dogwood or alder buckthorn · reviewed
Common dogwood or spindle · reviewed
Flowering currant or mezereon · reviewed
Flowering currant or blackcurrant · reviewed
White willow or weeping willow · reviewed
White willow or butterfly bush · reviewed
Winter hazel or witch hazel · reviewed
Beautyberry or snowberry · reviewed
Common lilac or Indian bean tree · reviewed
Serbian spruce or Sitka spruce · reviewed
Flowering quince or firethorn · reviewed
Blackthorn or buckthorn · reviewed
Snowberry or wild privet · reviewed
Alder buckthorn or buckthorn · reviewed
Heather or tamarisk · reviewed
Heather or winter heath · reviewed
Witch hazel or wintersweet · reviewed
Trumpet vine or Indian bean tree · reviewed
Indian bean tree or large-leaved lime · reviewed
Perfoliate honeysuckle or common honeysuckle · reviewed
Midland hawthorn or firethorn · reviewed
Fig or white mulberry · reviewed
Bird cherry or St Lucie cherry · reviewed
Bird cherry or wild cherry · reviewed
St Lucie cherry or wild cherry · reviewed
Weigela or common honeysuckle · reviewed
Grapevine or Virginia creeper · reviewed
Crab apple or wild pear · reviewed
White poplar or silver lime · reviewed
Handkerchief tree or large-leaved lime · reviewed
Silver lime or large-leaved lime · reviewed
Large-leaved lime or black mulberry · reviewed
Sweet-briar or dog rose
Burnet rose or Japanese rose
Osier or white willow
Goat willow or grey willow
Colorado blue spruce or Norway spruce
Douglas fir or European silver fir
English lavender or common sage
Japanese barberry or barberry
Common dogwood or white dogwood
Snowy mespilus or bird cherry
Turkey oak or English oak
Red oak or pin oak
Sycamore or silver maple
Atlas cedar or cedar of Lebanon
Redcurrant or gooseberry
Highbush blueberry or bilberry
Nashi pear or pear
Apricot or peach
Quince or pear
White mulberry or black mulberry

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Alder buckthorn or buckthorn · reviewed
Almond or peach · reviewed
Almond willow or white willow · reviewed
American cranberry or cowberry · reviewed
Apple or crab apple · reviewed
Apple or nashi pear · reviewed
Apple or plum · reviewed
Apple tree or pear tree · reviewed
Apricot or almond · reviewed
Apricot or peach
Apricot or plum · reviewed
Ash or box elder · reviewed
Ash or elder · reviewed
Ash or Japanese pagoda tree · reviewed
Ash or manna ash · reviewed
Ash or rowan · reviewed
Ash or tree of heaven · reviewed
Atlas cedar or cedar of Lebanon
Atlas cedar or deodar · reviewed
Bamboo or Himalayan honeysuckle · reviewed
Bamboo or sacred bamboo · reviewed
Bay laurel or bay willow · reviewed
Bay laurel or cherry laurel · reviewed
Bearberry or cowberry · reviewed
Beautyberry or snowberry · reviewed
Beech or hornbeam · reviewed
Beech or Persian ironwood · reviewed
Bilberry or bog bilberry · reviewed
Bilberry or cowberry · reviewed
Bird cherry or black cherry · reviewed
Bird cherry or St Lucie cherry · reviewed
Bird cherry or wild cherry · reviewed
Bittersweet or duke of Argyll’s teaplant · reviewed
Bittersweet or white bryony · reviewed
Blackthorn or buckthorn · reviewed
Blackthorn or cherry plum · reviewed
Blackthorn or hawthorn · reviewed
Bog-myrtle or eared willow · reviewed
Box or box-leaved honeysuckle · reviewed
Box or garden privet · reviewed
Box or Japanese holly · reviewed
Bramble or dog rose · reviewed
Bramble or Japanese wineberry · reviewed
Broom or gorse · reviewed
Burnet rose or dog rose · reviewed
Burnet rose or Japanese rose
Burnet rose or sweet-briar · reviewed
Californian lilac or butterfly bush · reviewed
Californian lilac or common lilac · reviewed
Camellia or cherry laurel · reviewed
Camellia or rhododendron · reviewed
Caucasian lime or small-leaved lime · reviewed
Cedar or European larch · reviewed
Cherry laurel or Japanese skimmia · reviewed
Cherry laurel or leatherleaf viburnum · reviewed
Cherry laurel or oleaster · reviewed
Cherry laurel or rhododendron · reviewed
Cherry plum or plum · reviewed
Chinese elm or field elm · reviewed
Chinese elm or Japanese zelkova · reviewed
Chinese wisteria or common laburnum · reviewed
Chinese wisteria or Japanese wisteria · reviewed
Climbing hydrangea or common ivy · reviewed
Colorado blue spruce or Norway spruce
Common alder or grey alder · reviewed
Common dogwood or alder buckthorn · reviewed
Common dogwood or spindle · reviewed
Common dogwood or white dogwood
Common honeysuckle or Japanese honeysuckle · reviewed
Common ivy or Japanese aralia · reviewed
Common ivy or star jasmine · reviewed
Common ivy or Virginia creeper · reviewed
Common jasmine or star jasmine · reviewed
Common jasmine or winter jasmine · reviewed
Common juniper or ornamental juniper · reviewed
Common lilac or Indian bean tree · reviewed
Common lime or Caucasian lime · reviewed
Common lime or large-leaved lime · reviewed
Common lime or small-leaved lime · reviewed
Cork oak or holm oak · reviewed
Cornelian cherry or common dogwood · reviewed
Cotoneaster or firethorn · reviewed
Cotoneaster or spiraea · reviewed
Crab apple or wild pear · reviewed
Crack willow or bay willow · reviewed
Cross-leaved heath or crowberry · reviewed
Cross-leaved heath or winter heath · reviewed
Crowberry or heather · reviewed
Deodar or cedar of Lebanon · reviewed
Deutzia or weigela · reviewed
Dog rose or Japanese rose · reviewed
Douglas fir or European silver fir
Dutch elm or wych elm · reviewed
Eared willow or grey willow · reviewed
Elder or red-berried elder · reviewed
English lavender or common sage
English lavender or lavender-cotton · reviewed
English oak or sessile oak · reviewed
Escallonia or box-leaved honeysuckle · reviewed
Escallonia or oleaster · reviewed
European larch or Japanese larch · reviewed
European silver fir or Nordmann fir · reviewed
European white elm or field elm · reviewed
European white elm or wych elm · reviewed
False acacia or honey locust · reviewed
Field elm or Dutch elm · reviewed
Field elm or field maple · reviewed
Field elm or Japanese zelkova · reviewed
Field elm or wych elm · reviewed
Field-rose or dog rose · reviewed
Fig or white mulberry · reviewed
Flowering currant or blackcurrant · reviewed
Flowering currant or mezereon · reviewed
Flowering quince or firethorn · reviewed
Fly honeysuckle or snowberry · reviewed
Forsythia or cornelian cherry · reviewed
Forsythia or Japanese kerria · reviewed
Forsythia or winter hazel · reviewed
Forsythia or winter jasmine · reviewed
Foxglove tree or Indian bean tree · reviewed
Garden privet or wild privet · reviewed
Garden thyme or rosemary · reviewed
Giant redwood or dawn redwood · reviewed
Goat willow or creeping willow · reviewed
Goat willow or eared willow · reviewed
Goat willow or grey willow
Goat willow or osier · reviewed
Goat willow or whitebeam · reviewed
Golden rain tree or false acacia · reviewed
Golden rain tree or tree of heaven · reviewed
Grapevine or Virginia creeper · reviewed
Grey poplar or aspen · reviewed
Grey poplar or white poplar · reviewed
Guelder rose or field maple · reviewed
Guelder rose or Japanese snowball · reviewed
Guelder rose or red-berried elder · reviewed
Guelder rose or wayfaring-tree · reviewed
Handkerchief tree or large-leaved lime · reviewed
Hardy kiwi or grapevine · reviewed
Hawthorn or firethorn · reviewed
Hawthorn or Midland hawthorn · reviewed
Hazel or alder · reviewed
Hazel or elm · reviewed
Hazel or filbert · reviewed
Hazel or hop-hornbeam · reviewed
Hazel or large-leaved lime · reviewed
Hazel or winter hazel · reviewed
Hazel or witch hazel · reviewed
Hazel or wych elm · reviewed
Heather or cross-leaved heath · reviewed
Heather or tamarisk · reviewed
Heather or winter heath · reviewed
Highbush blueberry or bilberry
Highbush blueberry or honeyberry · reviewed
Holly or cherry laurel · reviewed
Holly or holly olive · reviewed
Holly or holm oak · reviewed
Holly or Japanese holly · reviewed
Holly or Oregon grape · reviewed
Hop or grapevine · reviewed
Hornbeam or elm · reviewed
Hornbeam or grey alder · reviewed
Hornbeam or hop-hornbeam · reviewed
Hornbeam or Japanese zelkova · reviewed
Horse chestnut or red horse chestnut · reviewed
Hybrid black poplar or aspen · reviewed
Hybrid black poplar or black poplar · reviewed
Hydrangea or climbing hydrangea · reviewed
Hydrangea or panicled hydrangea · reviewed
Indian bean tree or large-leaved lime · reviewed
Japanese barberry or barberry
Japanese barberry or gooseberry · reviewed
Japanese honeysuckle or perfoliate honeysuckle · reviewed
Japanese maple or silver maple · reviewed
Japanese pagoda tree or false acacia · reviewed
Japanese pieris or Japanese skimmia · reviewed
Japanese snowball or wayfaring-tree · reviewed
Japanese spindle or spindle · reviewed
Jostaberry or blackcurrant · reviewed
Jostaberry or gooseberry · reviewed
Judas tree or katsura tree · reviewed
Katsura tree or handkerchief tree · reviewed
Katsura tree or small-leaved lime · reviewed
Kiwi fruit or grapevine · reviewed
Kiwi fruit or hardy kiwi · reviewed
Large-leaved lime or black mulberry · reviewed
Large-leaved lime or small-leaved lime · reviewed
Laurustinus or garden privet · reviewed
Laurustinus or guelder rose · reviewed
Lavender or rosemary · reviewed
Lawson cypress or Leyland cypress · reviewed
Lawson cypress or northern white cedar · reviewed
Lawson cypress or western red cedar · reviewed
Leatherleaf viburnum or wayfaring-tree · reviewed
Lesser periwinkle or common ivy · reviewed
London plane or fig · reviewed
London plane or sycamore · reviewed
Manna ash or rowan · reviewed
Mexican orange blossom or Japanese skimmia · reviewed
Midland hawthorn or firethorn · reviewed
Mock orange or common jasmine · reviewed
Mock orange or deutzia · reviewed
Mock orange or Mexican orange blossom · reviewed
Mock orange or weigela · reviewed
Mountain currant or gooseberry · reviewed
Nashi pear or pear
Ninebark or guelder rose · reviewed
Ninebark or smoke-tree · reviewed
Norway maple or field maple · reviewed
Norway maple or London plane · reviewed
Norway spruce or European silver fir · reviewed
Norway spruce or Serbian spruce · reviewed
Norway spruce or Sitka spruce · reviewed
Oleaster or tree groundsel · reviewed
Olive tree or oleaster · reviewed
Oregon grape or holly olive · reviewed
Osier or creeping willow · reviewed
Osier or white willow
Peach or sweet chestnut · reviewed
Peach or white willow · reviewed
Pear or wild pear · reviewed
Perfoliate honeysuckle or common honeysuckle · reviewed
Persian ironwood or witch hazel · reviewed
Photinia or cherry laurel · reviewed
Photinia or Japanese pieris · reviewed
Plum or blackthorn · reviewed
Plum or wild cherry · reviewed
Purple willow or osier · reviewed
Purple willow or white willow · reviewed
Quince or flowering quince · reviewed
Quince or medlar · reviewed
Quince or pear
Raspberry or bramble · reviewed
Raspberry or dog rose · reviewed
Raspberry or Japanese wineberry · reviewed
Red maple or silver maple · reviewed
Red oak or pin oak
Red oak or Turkey oak · reviewed
Redcurrant or blackcurrant · reviewed
Redcurrant or gooseberry
Redcurrant or mountain currant · reviewed
Sacred bamboo or Oregon grape · reviewed
Scots pine or black pine · reviewed
Sea buckthorn or gorse · reviewed
Sea buckthorn or oleaster · reviewed
Sea buckthorn or osier · reviewed
Sea buckthorn or tree groundsel · reviewed
Serbian spruce or Sitka spruce · reviewed
Silver birch or downy birch · reviewed
Silver lime or large-leaved lime · reviewed
Snowberry or wild privet · reviewed
Snowy mespilus or bird cherry
Snowy mespilus or black chokeberry · reviewed
Spotted laurel or cherry laurel · reviewed
Spotted laurel or Japanese aralia · reviewed
St Lucie cherry or wild cherry · reviewed
Swamp cypress or dawn redwood · reviewed
Sweet chestnut or horse chestnut · reviewed
Sweet-briar or dog rose
Sweetgum or London plane · reviewed
Sweetgum or red maple · reviewed
Sweetgum or sycamore · reviewed
Sycamore or Norway maple · reviewed
Sycamore or silver maple
Thuja or Lawson cypress · reviewed
Thuja or Leyland cypress · reviewed
Thuja or ornamental juniper · reviewed
Traveller’s joy or Russian vine · reviewed
Trumpet vine or Indian bean tree · reviewed
Tulip tree or magnolia · reviewed
Turkey oak or English oak
Turkish hazel or hazel · reviewed
Turkish hazel or hornbeam · reviewed
Walnut or tree of heaven · reviewed
Weigela or common honeysuckle · reviewed
Western red cedar or northern white cedar · reviewed
White bryony or hop · reviewed
White mulberry or black mulberry
White poplar or silver lime · reviewed
White willow or butterfly bush · reviewed
White willow or crack willow · reviewed
White willow or weeping willow · reviewed
Whitebeam or Swedish whitebeam · reviewed
Wild cherry or Japanese cherry · reviewed
Wild cherry or sour cherry · reviewed
Wild service tree or field maple · reviewed
Wild service tree or Swedish whitebeam · reviewed
Winged spindle or spindle · reviewed
Winter hazel or witch hazel · reviewed
Witch hazel or wintersweet · reviewed
Yew or European silver fir · reviewed