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General Forestry => Tree, Plant and Wood I.D. => Topic started by: welderskelter on June 19, 2021, 08:20:51 PM
My wife found a tree that has little hops like things hanging on it. Kinda looks like a pinecone only it is green and soft to the touch. I hope I described it good enough so I dont have to put a pic of it on here. Its not a pine. I hate pines.
These little things hanging on it are attached with what?
A picture is worth way more than a thousand words around here....
Thanks guys. It was an ironwood. Guess I just never looked at one that close before.
Yep, this time of year they are showy, a lime green ornament in dark green foliage. I have 4 of them in the yard. The chickadees like the seeds, they have hid them in the past in bird boxes. Winter stashes. :D
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11009/SD_Hophornbeam-002.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1309615293)
Quote from: SwampDonkey on June 20, 2021, 02:58:28 AM
Yep, this time of year they are showy, a lime green ornament in dark green foliage. I have 4 of them in the yard. The chickadees like the seeds, they have hid them in the past in bird boxes. Winter stashes. :D
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11009/SD_Hophornbeam-002.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1309615293)
Half the bird boxes I set out ended up being “chickadee stash houses” lol . Them little guys are hoarders!
There's so many "ironwood"s are we talking about eastern hophornbeam?
Bronze smooth bark with conspicuous lenticels when young and a finer shaggy rectangular bark as it matures.
Yes, hophornbeam