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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #20 on: December 30, 2007, 10:05:15 pm »
red maple buds and branch tips are red and blunt tipped. Their flower buds are real easy to spot, they are more rounded and clustered.


You'll often find under story sugar maple that retain a few leaves like beech and oak, but not as many retained. A lot of my sugar maple up on the woodlot still have a few dead leaves attached.
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #21 on: December 30, 2007, 10:16:29 pm »
I do not see many of those, but from the limited view, I would guess Norway Maple.
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #22 on: December 30, 2007, 10:18:00 pm »
My first impression is hickory.
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #23 on: December 30, 2007, 10:27:41 pm »
Probably hickory of some sort, I'm not familiar enough with them. I remember a discussion earlier and the hickory family have diamond patterns in the bark, but so does ash, walnut and butternut. It's not ash.  ;)
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #24 on: December 30, 2007, 10:43:01 pm »
I added a pic to that last one to show the form of the tree and the trees next to it.
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #25 on: December 30, 2007, 10:54:30 pm »
The large bark looks like White Willow or Crack Willow.
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #26 on: December 30, 2007, 11:13:03 pm »
Looks a little sassafrassy too.
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #27 on: December 30, 2007, 11:25:45 pm »
Well it sure reminded me of Willow when I saw it, but I don't have White Willow in my book.
I can't really find any pics online for White Willow that are all that close.

Sassafras was the only thing in my book that looked close and I found one pic online that really reminds me of it.
http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/4h/Sassafras/sassafra.htm

Maybe I should just start cutting all these trees down and getting end grain scans, you folks will bail me out right ???
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #28 on: December 30, 2007, 11:27:27 pm »
We like leaves, too :).
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #29 on: December 30, 2007, 11:37:26 pm »
Nothing I can do about the leaves. :-\
Next to impossible to walk through a lot of these areas in the summer due to the weeds/snake grass.
Lots of snakes too and I don't care for them, I'd rather collect end grain scans then! :D
That's one reason I've never been down this one trail before. ;)
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #30 on: December 31, 2007, 12:17:58 am »
A twig with a bud would be nice. 

I like bark.  However, I have found that the Yankee bark looks a little different than the Rebel bark :).
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #31 on: December 31, 2007, 12:27:14 am »
Yankee bark's worse than it's bite.
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #32 on: December 31, 2007, 12:28:01 am »
Wonder if anyone would notice me walking around with a tree pruner and a handful of branches. :D

Who won Lee ???  ;) ;)
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #33 on: December 31, 2007, 01:21:30 am »
That's no fair, adding pictures after I post.  :D :D

It's awfully hard to tell, but it could also be a cottonwood. They usually do not grow that crooked, but it is trying to find space away from the trees in the background.

That tree behind looks like a hickory or a red maple.
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #34 on: December 31, 2007, 07:33:18 am »
Hmm, not so much diamond pattern further up the trunk. I've seen bark pattern like that in old growth balm, but the bark is orange on those and I find them in cedar stands.

I have no clue what that one is though.
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #35 on: December 31, 2007, 10:30:36 am »
I vote for sugar maple on the first one. Part of my woods was pastured long ago and I have some trees that look very similar that are sugar maple for sure. They burn real nice.  ;D
The second tree looks exactly like the sassafras I have seen. My daughter and son-in-law have many of them surrounding their home.

Maybe Furby will take another walk after leaf out and confirm for us what they are.
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #36 on: December 31, 2007, 12:56:38 pm »
Gary, the trees in the background are the same as the one I was taking a pic of.

Not real sure about the walk after leaf out, but I'll think on it. ;)
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #37 on: December 31, 2007, 02:27:37 pm »
If that is lowland, wet soils then I would still guess some type of cottonwood, maybe Swamp Cottonwood.
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #38 on: December 31, 2007, 02:31:32 pm »
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Re: A walk in the park
« Reply #39 on: December 31, 2007, 05:07:17 pm »
Quote from: Gary_C on December 31, 2007, 02:27:37 pm
If that is lowland, wet soils then I would still guess some type of cottonwood, maybe Swamp Cottonwood.

That was the same thing that made me look at Willow.

Furby, What did the limbs look like up top? Did they droop or were they straight like a Cotton wood?
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