Italian Alder - Alnus cordata
A tree with glossy green leaves that have heart shaped bases. It bears cones and catkins typical of the Alder family. The cones are in small clusters, single or in pairs or threes.
Other alders are similar when not in leaf
Photo of leaves
Often planted in parks and on roadsides.
all year
Deciduous.
Widespread around Britain as a planted tree.
Often planted on road verges and in parks in Leicestershire and Rutland, and sometimes naturalising. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.
David Nicholls
Spearwort Fields
23 June 2017
Melinda Bell
Forest Rock Wood
07 June 2021
Peter Smith
Barrow upon Soar
17 July 2015
Glossy, heart-shaped leaves and large cones.
Graham Calow
Cambridge Road, Whetstone
22 February 2016
Craig Mabbett
Market Harborough Kettering Road On The River Welland
26 September 2020
Graham Calow
Whetstone
22 February 2016
catkin detail
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Species profile
- Common names
- Italian Alder
- Species group:
- Trees, Shrubs & Climbers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Fagales
- Family:
- Betulaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 29
- First record:
- 17/07/2015 (Smith, Peter)
- Last record:
- 16/09/2024 (Isabel Raval)
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David Nicholls
Kirby Muxloe Castle
13 September 2021
martindgrimes
Empingham, Hereward Way off Nook Lane
26 November 2020
Saharima Roenisch
Abbey Park
22 November 2017
martindgrimes
Empingham, Hereward Way off Nook Lane
26 November 2020
Graham Calow
Cambridge Road, Whetstone
22 February 2016
Graham Calow
Cambridge Road, Whetstone
15 May 2016
Graham Calow
Cambridge Road, Whetstone
15 May 2016
Graham Calow
Witherley
01 August 2015
Graham Calow
Witherley
01 August 2015
Peter Smith
Barrow upon Soar
17 July 2015
Italian alder (with hawthorn at base)
Graham Calow
Cambridge Road, Whetstone
22 February 2016
Saharima Roenisch
Leicester Abbey Park (St. Margaret's footpath)
21 May 2020
David Gould
Braunstone, Leicester
15 September 2018
