Trees, flowers and birds common in Britain英国文学 教学课件

Sycamore西克莫枫
• The commonest member of the Maple family in Britain, Sycamore is native to mountainous areas of Central Europe. It can grow to a height of 35 metres in Britain and when mature is sometimes broader than it is tall.. The bark is smooth and silvery grey until the tree matures when it gets somewhat rougher. The leaves are dark green and have five lobes with toothed edges. Flowers are produced on long strands that hang down with up to 100 flowers on each strand. The familiar seeds are produced in pairs and have wings situated at about 90° to each other.
Pussy willow and caterpillar
female catkin
• male catkin
bluebell 蓝铃花
• Folklore
• The Elizabethans called it Jacinth and used the sticky juice from crushed bulbs to stick paper. In English folklore was said to call the fairies to their meetings. People also would not walk through a field of bluebells because they believed it to be enchanted and that the fairies would spirit them away – never to be seen by human eye again. And take heed a warning: Should any one be so unlucky as to actually hear the bluebells ringing then they will die within a year
sycamore keys andБайду номын сангаасleaves
• Sycamore tree
Goat Willow 阔叶柳 (Also known as Pussy Willow or Sallow)
• Normally grows as a sizeable bush but occasionally reaches 10 metres as a small tree. It has smooth bark and twigs. The leaves are quite rounded, with the length being less than twice the width. In Spring, male trees are quite stunning with their display of bright yellow catkins. The female tree's catkins develop cottony seeds which are released into the wind during May.
• The female flower is a tiny red structure which captures pollen particles from the wind (see image "female hazel" below. Each Hazel tree has both male and female flowers. Its rounded hairy leaves with pointed tips are characteristic in the Summer, while Autumn sees the maturing hazelnuts as they turn from green to brown. Managed Hazel woodlands are especially important in supporting the endangered Dormouse. Correctly coppiced, the hazel bushes interlock with outward growing branches enabling the arboreal dormouse to move from tree to tree in search of Hazelnuts, one of its favourite foods.
Trees Common in England
• tree in spring
mature tree in winter
Beech in autumn
Hazel榛树
• Hazel is most commonly seen as a shrub because of its lack of a main trunk. Hazel woodlands are usually managed by regular cutting known as coppicing so that each hazel sends up a large number of near vertical branches from ground level. If uncoppiced, Hazel trees can grow to a height of 8-10 metres and produce a trunk. Easily recognisable at any time of year, hazel is characterised by its yellow brown twigs and its developing green male flowers known as catkins during the winter. In spring these catkins open out to release their pollen and appear as long yellow strands (see images hazel4, hazel5, & hazel6 below.)
• the UK’s favourite wild flower