Author Topic: I'd this tree (Read 584 times)

Homestead_dream · « **on:** March 09, 2019, 06:01:33 PM »

Hello forum, I'm new here but not new to reading the forum, I've enjoyed it for years.

I have a tree on my property that I'm gonna cut tomorrow, not sure what it is but it looks kinda similar to tulip poplar. Any body know

Homestead_dream · « **Reply #1 on:** March 09, 2019, 06:09:47 PM »

Homestead_dream · « **Reply #2 on:** March 09, 2019, 06:24:11 PM »

lxskllr · « **Reply #3 on:** March 09, 2019, 06:25:07 PM »

I'm not real good with trees, but tulip poplars hold on to their seed clusters a long time. If it was a poplar, you'd probably still see a few in the branches.

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BTW, I'm not getting a poplar vibe from it, but as said, I'm not great at IDing trees, especially in photos.

landscraper · « **Reply #4 on:** March 09, 2019, 07:42:25 PM »

I don’t think it’s tulip poplar.

Cottonwood?

sandhills · « **Reply #5 on:** March 09, 2019, 09:09:09 PM »

Welcome to the forum, my first guess is cottonwood also, but it's a DanG straight one for what we have around here!

stavebuyer · « **Reply #6 on:** March 10, 2019, 04:25:27 AM »

Bark looks like sweet gum.

WDH · « **Reply #7 on:** March 10, 2019, 08:40:02 AM »

Maybe cucumbertree or blackgum. They are easy to tell apart from the twigs. Can you get a twig with buds?

hacknchop · « **Reply #8 on:** March 10, 2019, 08:48:45 AM »

Kinda looks like the Elm we have growing here.

sandhills · « **Reply #9 on:** March 10, 2019, 10:55:40 AM »

I must regress

, way to straight to be cottonwood, or at least what we have here, and the bark isn't quite right either. Now not to hijack the thread but what are all the vines growing up to it? This would be me

Don P · « **Reply #10 on:** March 10, 2019, 02:40:54 PM »

It should have seed clusters still up there as mentioned, wrong bark for a cuke, I'd call it a tulip poplar unless it hits the ground and proves otherwise.

Homestead_dream · « **Reply #11 on:** March 10, 2019, 03:33:26 PM »

We were all wrong, it was a donut tree, completely hollow. That tells me it's some type of gum, the wood looks like sweet gum to me

lxskllr · « **Reply #12 on:** March 10, 2019, 04:46:57 PM »

I'd have left it to get another harvest. Donuts are good.

WDH · « **Reply #13 on:** March 10, 2019, 08:12:30 PM »

Could be sweetgum, could be blackgum. Need a TWIG.

Southside · « **Reply #14 on:** March 10, 2019, 10:21:01 PM »

I was gonna bet short on @wdh going for Ash on this one.....

must be my rotten heart...

WDH · « **Reply #15 on:** March 11, 2019, 08:12:15 AM »

It is..........

Homestead_dream · « **Reply #16 on:** March 11, 2019, 08:35:11 AM »

Still have to go back and get a twig sometime this week.

Woodpecker52 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 11, 2019, 11:55:54 AM »

Its called the southern wastebasket tree., or manger tree.

Homestead_dream · « **Reply #18 on:** March 22, 2019, 06:57:36 PM »

I was finally able to get a twig. I'm not finding any sweetgum balls around the base

WDH · « **Reply #19 on:** March 22, 2019, 08:33:07 PM »

Stavebuyer is right. It is sweetgum. That big imbricate (overlapping scales) bud is the key. If yellow poplar, the bud would be valvate (like a duck's bill), and the stipular or bud scale scar would completely encircle the twig

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Here is a pic showing the valvate bud of yellow poplar and the scar encircling the twig.

yellow poplar stipular scar - Google Search:

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