Trees - as a resource

Any trees which can provide food, medicine, or construction materials
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Quercus robur - Wikipedia
English Oak - Quercus robur; Construction timber - strong and doesn't rot although heavy, edible acorns, oak bark contains tannin for leather
Common Hazel - Corylus avellana; Grown for it's nuts when left as a tree or coppiced every 5 to 7 years for long straight multiple stems.
Alnus glutinosa - Wikipedia
Black Alder - Alnus glutinosa; Nitrogen fixing, Timber - for bows, or building in wet locations, Tannic Acid from bark, survival food more commonly winter food for wild animals. Medicinal.
Common Yew - Taxus baccata; All parts of the yew are poisonous, especially the foliage except the flesh of the red berries as long as seed is removed. Wood traditionally used for English longbows.
Betula pendula - Wikipedia
Silver Birch - Betula Pendula; Firewood, food, furniture, medicinal
White Sapote / Custard apple - Casimiroa edulis; Tasty edible fruit all year round in good quantities. Narcotic - fruit esp seeds induce drowsiness.
Common Ash - Fraxinus excelsior; Tool Handles due to being a natural shock absorber, coppiced every 9 years, excellent firewood as burns well even when wet
Sweet Chestnut - Castenea Sativa Nuts for food which can be ground into flour, wood for fences, bark for tanning leather
Laburnum anagyroides - Common Laburnum; Dark brown heartwood prized by furniture makers for decorative inlays for boxes, wood has peculiar feature of being very difficult to burn so used for smoking pipes, also for archery bows. Whole tree is poisonous.