Google quickly turned 'green candles' into acer pseudoplatanus, aka sycamore, an illegal immigrant from Europe (back in 1500), named for its superficial similarity with the only distantly related plane trees.
Odd that I had never noticed the candles before. Either that or those memories have been recycled to make way for someone else, hopefully not vacancy.
It took a little while to be sure that the candles turn into the paired winged seeds which I do remember, but the diagram offered by wikipedia at reference 1 is clear enough on the point.
The telephone would have been no good at all on candles which were twenty yards away, so this snap, which gives something of the candles if not the tree at the station as its splendid whole, was taken in nearby Mill Road, or possibly Windmill Lane, over a chain link fence which supplies damsons in season.
Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_pseudoplatanus.
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