Plant ID

[Lurker]

Can anyone suggest what this might be?
I found a sprouting “nut” in the compost heap about a month ago.
It was the size of an acorn but didn’t look like one, now it’s leafy it’s obviously not an oak.
I can’t be sure if it’s kitchen waste or if it got there by other means.
We have lots of mature trees next door (Victorian cemetery) but I can’t spot anything with a similar leaf over there.

 

[AndyT]

Google Lens suggests it's an oak or a chestnut but I don't think it's distinctive enough to ID the species.

 

[Lurker]

Never heard of google lens until now, thanks.

There’s a sweet chestnut next door, but the fruit never fills out , also “my nut” was most unchestnut like.

 

[AndyT]

I remembered it last week when I couldn't identify the ragworts coming up in our garden. They're a bit more distinctive though.

 

[AndyP]

Could it be beech?

 

[Pete Maddex]

The wrinkly edges remind me of sweet chestnut leaves.

Pete

 

[TrimTheKing]

Sweet Chestnut for me that, by the shape, texture and serrated edge.

 

[AJB Temple]

Potentially cherry.

Oak always comes out even from the first pair as the classic oak leaf pattern. I'm no expert on the varieties of sweet chestnut, but I thought the leaves are usually palmate? Cherry grows like a weed from stones or suckers and the leaves are similar shape and serration on many of them.

 

[Tris]

I'd go with sweet chestnut, Castanea sativa. Link isn't the best photo but shows it at a seedling stage. Juvenile leaves are often lacking the serrations you'd see on the leaf edges of the mature tree.

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