The leaf shape is vaguely similar but it grows much more upright and has completely different flowers and fruits with small flowers on the ends of long pods that split open to release wind-blown seeds ...

They spin like helicopters as they fall from the tree ... Their fruits or seeds fall from the plant and are carried away by the water. Coconut, silver birch, willow ...

We all enjoyed that early Spring sunshine, with plants being moved out of the greenhouse and seeds being sown, writes H.W.