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General Forestry => Tree, Plant and Wood I.D. => Topic started by: turningfool on May 28, 2009, 07:43:59 PM

Title: what the heck..
Post by: turningfool on May 28, 2009, 07:43:59 PM
found this tree a short distance from the house,has leaves similar to a chestnut or a buckeye but has birch-like bark,does anyone know what it is? A michigan tree,ot a transplants from wherever.

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Title: Re: what the heck..
Post by: beenthere on May 28, 2009, 08:37:11 PM
Shagbark hickory?
A pic of the bark would help.
Title: Re: what the heck..
Post by: blame on May 29, 2009, 02:16:11 AM
yup hickory leaf is what i thought
Title: Re: what the heck..
Post by: turningfool on May 29, 2009, 04:33:13 AM
dont have pics of the trunk,but its like birch but much darker,will try to het some pics of it to post,i've seen hiccory,anddoubt these are those
Title: Re: what the heck..
Post by: Lanier_Lurker on May 29, 2009, 08:26:16 AM
My first thought is hickory, but I think ash has a similar leaflet structure.

More likely hickory, but the "birch-like" bark does not sound quite right - unless it is a shagbark.
Title: Re: what the heck..
Post by: DanG on May 29, 2009, 01:37:10 PM
Looks awfully hickoryish to me too.

TF, did you shoot that down with a shotgun, or y'all got a bad bug problem up there? ;D :D :D
Title: Re: what the heck..
Post by: SwampDonkey on May 29, 2009, 08:34:39 PM
Probably a hickory, has a couple too many leaflets than a hop-tree or wafer ash Ptelea trifoliata.
Title: Re: what the heck..
Post by: beenthere on June 01, 2009, 11:55:19 AM
Quote from: turningfool on May 29, 2009, 04:33:13 AM
dont have pics of the trunk,but its like birch but much darker,will try to het some pics of it to post,i've seen hiccory,anddoubt these are those

Pics yet?   :) :)
Title: Re: what the heck..
Post by: The-Burl-Hunter on June 01, 2009, 08:04:25 PM
at first glance it also did look like hickory to me
Title: Re: what the heck..
Post by: Dodgy Loner on June 02, 2009, 01:24:27 PM
I vote for hickory as well.
Title: Re: what the heck..
Post by: blame on June 04, 2009, 12:24:06 AM
 

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/19239/shagbark.JPG)

did the bark look like this
Title: Re: what the heck..
Post by: WDH on June 05, 2009, 07:24:58 PM
I bet it does not have a hand wrapped around it like the one in the pic  :).

Hickory for me, too.
Title: Re: what the heck..
Post by: rambo on March 15, 2010, 10:37:07 PM
shag bark hickory.
Title: Re: what the heck..
Post by: DirtForester on March 23, 2010, 11:50:36 AM
It's hickory.  Could be pignut hickory.
Title: Re: what the heck..
Post by: WDH on March 23, 2010, 12:09:14 PM
The five leaflets lead one to pignut.