The Tree ID Thread

[pantheraba]

The leaves sound like sourwood. IDK...waiting to get a verdict. Is there a DNA test for trees?

 

[dstimber]

That would be nice. Going from looking at them in the woods to a yard is a big difference to me. Their overall structure seems so much different. Lack of leaves to go by on this one threw me off.

 

[dstimber]

Confirmed the tree was a sourwood "Oxydendrum arboreum". Homeowner found some leaves and remains of flowers in a flowerbed from last year. His x brother in law planted the tree years ago. I guess he spoke with him and he called it a Lilly valley tree. I believe that is another common name for it. Now on to the next one.

 

[pantheraba]

Cool...thanks for the follow-up. A strange looking sourwood...unusual structure due to being an urban tree, I guess.

 

[dstimber]

Yea didn't really match up to how a sourwood typically looks. Doesn't help that it's been topped and hacked up in the past

 

[Nutball]

I got one that's driving me nuts

I have no idea what this is. I guess it smells a little like hedge apple, but after finding the leaves might resemble elm (to me the bark and wood doesn't) I think I smell a tiny bit of elm in there, but many trees kind of smell the same in some ways. Seems like medium density wood. The wood in the branches is very white. The wood when fresh cut is a bright yellow orange, not as yellow as hedgeapple, oranger, but it quickly turns brown until it is a dark tan, medium to light brown (no pictures of the end color, just fresh cuts).

 

[MasterBlaster]

Stankwood.

 

[JD3000]

Its an elm. Leaf bases are more symmetric than others but an elm nevertheless

 

[squisher]

Looks like our Siberian elm. A weed tree around here.

 

[FJR]

Yes, Siberian Elm indeed.

 

[Levi]

Ewww... looks like a sib elm for sure.

 

[Nutball]

Cool, thanks for the help. I thought as far back as it was cut that it would be rotten inside, but it could have been great mill wood at that size right? 4 tons of wet log there ranging from 28"-50"+, 15ft

 

[Buddy]

???

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Looks like fruitless mulberry...Morus alba

 

[Mick!]

Mulberry of some description.

 

[bstewert]

Is there such a thing as a Mulberry bush, like in the nursery rhyme?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

After a coppice? Probably

 

[Buddy]

Thanks guys!!!

 

[pantheraba]

What is this tree? A type of wild cherry, pollarded? or just hacked?

A customer has asked me to remove it...looks kinda cool to me. Suggestions?

 

[Wood Collector]

looks like a ornamental cherry

 

[pantheraba]

Thanks for weighing in on that. I will look that up.

 

[pantheraba]

I googled that...looks spot on. THanks, Levi!!

I like the tree...some great ones on the web.

 

[JD3000]

Def a weeping Japanese cherry, they can get weird on you after harsh weather related events as Levi mentioned. Cankers can set in after stress

 

[pantheraba]

It's still weeping as far as I know. The owner has not asked us to come back yet. We did the big pine for him before Irma showed up and now that the dangerous stuff is done I guess he is ignoring that one.

 

[dstimber]

Went to look at this guy today.

Owner was thinking some type of cottonwood. I some what agreed By looking at the bark. Leaves don?t quite resemble what I?m used to seeing tho. Kinda lost on it.
Only cottonwoods I?ve ever seen were huge and 150 ft tall