Author Topic: Need help. (Read 723 times)

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.

JohnW · « **Reply #1 on:** June 19, 2021, 11:02:54 PM »

These little things hanging on it are attached with what?

Southside · « **Reply #2 on:** June 19, 2021, 11:22:03 PM »

A picture is worth way more than a thousand words around here....

welderskelter · « **Reply #3 on:** June 20, 2021, 12:36:08 AM »

Thanks guys. It was an ironwood. Guess I just never looked at one that close before.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #4 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.

HemlockKing · « **Reply #5 on:** June 20, 2021, 04:57:30 AM »

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.

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Half the bird boxes I set out ended up being “chickadee stash houses”

. Them little guys are hoarders!

Don P · « **Reply #6 on:** June 20, 2021, 08:03:17 AM »

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.

welderskelter · « **Reply #7 on:** June 20, 2021, 04:40:29 PM »

Yes, hophornbeam

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