what is it

[Tom]

The bark looks a little course and light colored for Persimmon and I can't see the leaves but there are two tests that I was taught for Persimmon.   It is usually the darker (sometimes black) trunk in the forest, and a hole drilled through the bark with a knife will reveal yellow or gold tissue.

[SwampDonkey]

What were the flowers like? The black locusts in towns are flowering now in my area.

[eldorado]

I would say it's a sassafras.

[tnlogger]

  wal now I done stumped meself  I went riding with my son yesterday and we went up tp ricks. well paul being how he is we went under the hill and I showed him the locast. wal I'll tell ya he turned around and asked me if i were going blind or just feeble minded  . Then he put that there stupid I gotcha grin on and said it's a sour wood ya old codjure.
 But being as how i am I was wrong and him and wood beard is right

[Riles]

If'n you took a picture of the leaves, we could drag this argument out a little longer...