Name this seedling please!

[veggiechicken]

Can you guess what this is please?
Last year, nearby, I found a seedling peach, complete with stone. I'm hoping this is also a stone fruit but I don't want to dig it up yet.

Best guesses please

[devonuk]

Hornbeam, perhaps?

[Chestnut]

I have no particular expertise, but it I think leaves look like my MIL's cherry tree ��

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[veggiechicken]

Hornbeam, perhaps?

I live on the edge of a beech wood and wondered if it could be that, hadn't thought of hornbeam. Thanks.

I have no particular expertise, but it I think leaves look like my MIL's cherry tree ��

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Another possibility. I may have thrown away some cherry stones and there are wild cherries nearby.

Keep the suggestions coming please!

[Thelma Sanders]

Doesn't look like cherry to me the leaf edges look too 'prickly' at the edges compared to the one in my garden.

I'd go for hornbeam or sweetchestnut, according to the leaf id sites.

https://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/INFD-5T6D2D

[burnie]

You could call it Bert?.......................................

[veggiechicken]

Thelma, I think you've got it - sweet chestnut The leaves and layout on the twigs looks right - though how it arrived here
I don't know of any sweet chestnuts in local gardens, just 2 in the local woods, and I don't remember eating any for years!
I like mystery trees

[fishpond]

Yes, it certainly looks like a Bert.
P.S The leaves look too slender for a Beech.

[1Bee]

Much closer to sweet chestnut than hornbeam: hornbeam have that serrated edge, but their leaves are more like beech in form and size.

My first thought was something from the beech family, from the look of the buds and axils, so sweet chestnut would make sense.

Nice.

[veggiechicken]

You could call it Bert?.......................................

Yes, it certainly looks like a Bert.

Maybe its a PhilBert?

[no_akira]

size of leaf would suggest sweetchestnut.

Mr Squirrel mustn't have that good a memory...

[veggiechicken]

Mr Squirrel plants lots of acorns and hazelnuts but this is something a bit different! Well done, Mr Squirrel

[burnie]

In about 30 years you might get some small nuts for Christmas VC!!

[veggiechicken]

Plenty of nuts around here already, burnie
Not sure I can wait 30 years anyway