Bark ID help

[Ar549]

I should've gotten a picture of the top as well.... Didn't.  I've narrowed it to basswood or White ash.  It's a blow down and it's been down a couple of years so the bark is darker than it would be I'm sure.  First branching is 30' up and the branches sweep up at a steep angle.  



 

[fluidpowerpro]

I am by no means an authority on tree ID but I sure think that looks like the bark on an elm tree.

[rusticretreater]

You should download one of the identification apps onto your phone.  Snap a photo, it searches and then IDs it for you.

[Otis1]

I wood lean towards elm also. If it's ash, then it will have opposite branches.

[SwampDonkey]

Good luck by bark alone. Up here sugar maple looks a lot different growing on glaciated sandy soil compared to sandy loam of potato field soil, for instance. About the only trees you can be sure of are the birches and even some folks can't separate grey from white birch. :D  Up here basswood bark looks like sugar maple bark on the same site. Young large tooth aspen with smooth bark and white blotches looks like young small blotchy sugar maple to. :D

large tooth on a maple-beech site.

[Ar549]

Thanks everybody.  Elm is the one tree I didn't search even though that crossed my mind when I first saw that it was down a long while back.  I'll take that into consideration.  

[Ar549]

You should download one of the identification apps onto your phone.  Snap a photo, it searches and then IDs it for you.

I did that but the results were very mixed.

[Ron Scott]

White Ash

[doc henderson]

if it is down can you get some close end grain, cut smooth like with a razor knife or a fine chop saw blade, and close up or even magnified pic of the end grain.  are the tops branches still on?  any leaves around from the tree?  what is the reason you want to know?  firewood, saw log?

[KEC]

Just from that photo, I would not rule out hickory.

[WLzM1A]

I am by no means an authority on tree ID but I sure think that looks like the bark on an elm tree.

Agreed

[Autocar]

It looks like pig hickory to me  :D .

[KEC]

If it is hickory, down for 2 years,  it is probably no good for lumber. Might make firewood.