Alnus glutinosa			provinance:	Hungary
Black Alder, Common Alder.  The prevalent riparian alder of Europe, including Britain. Most European provenances resemble British ones in appearance and growth except that those from northern Europe, Estonia and Scandinavia for example, are slower and more upright and in fact columnar. However, Corsican and Greek populations are indeed interesting, different and differ also from each other. The Greek seedlings are wide-spreading and downy and resinous on the shoots. The Corsican are thin-twigged, the twigs themselves purplish and shining, and the leaves smaller and a shining yellow-green. This probably deserves recognition as a subspecies if not an actual species. Both grow very well, particularly the Corsican, which also tend to be spreading.
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