h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

For those of you who remember the Monty Python sketch...

Can you recognise these trees?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/5325200/Can-you-name-these-common-trees.html

I got 9/13. Can you do better?

RF

one miss because I confused the english names (being a dumb Swede)
one miss because I couldn't see the shape of the leaves.

11, but it should have been 12.

I got 9. But Ivy is hardly a tree and some others were no brainers. Holly was particularly tricky I thought

Also I missed 4 as it was a picture of a nut and not a tree, I thought it was showing the picture of the fruit of the previous tree...


Still I'm quite pleased.

11

whooo who

I got 12. Just got Elm wrong.

Yes, I missed that one. Unless you live near Preston Park, Brighton, you've probably never seen an elm in the last 30 years.

Yes, I thought the elm was Very Unfair. Now I can't have my guide Woodcraft badge.

Not all the images were working properly when I tried it just now, mind. So it's possible I got more than that one wrong.

But I don't think so.



Mol

Got them all. I surprised myself with the Elm even though we have a variety of Elm (Ulmus) at the bottom of the garden (along with the s) on the stream bank but I'm not sure which it is.

We do live in rural North Wales which means we see lots of trees around and about.

t.

11 out of 13. Good quiz.

12. Also missed out on the Elm.

PP

I didn't expect to do very well after what will hitherto be referred to as 'the chestnut fiasco', but got 10/13 anyway.

B

I got 9, but it's been a while since I saw any English trees.

Obviously nog

12/13 – just got the sycamore wrong. We’ve still got plenty of elms around in the churchyard at home. Our sycamores are much smaller than the one in that picture.