What Kind of Tree is it?

[WoodWrangler]

This tree is about on it's last season, I think, and was wondering what kind of tree it is. Can you tell by the bark?

 

[DaveO]

No, not easily. But if you can get a better pic of the leaves I will ID for you.
Dave

 

[Mike Davis]

Bark looks similar to cottonwood, but leaves are a lot easier to ID.

 

[DaveO]

Methinks that Mike may have nailed it :eusa_clap:eusa_clap:icon_thum But a leaf indentation would be proof positive.
Unfortunately if true that means that the wood isn't of great value, unless you're carving it. Then the bark is a hot property.
Dave

 

[jeff...]

Bark looks similar to cottonwood, but leaves are a lot easier to ID.

:nah:

Ash

:dontknow:

http://www.anr.msu.edu/robertsd/ash/ashtree_id.html

 

[WoodWrangler]

Not sure that it has any leaves left, but let me see what I can find tomorrow ... and I'll get a pic up.

 

[walnutjerry]

The bark looks a lot like sour wood to me---------????????

Jerry

 

[jeff...]

The bark looks a lot like sour wood to me---------????????

Jerry

:nah:

http://www.dof.virginia.gov/trees/sourwood.shtml

 

[walnutjerry]

Thanks Jeff----------I have mistakenly been calling a tree that grows in my area "sourwood" that has bark nothing like the picture in the link you posted.:embarrassed: Now----I wonder, what is the tree I have been calling sourwood?????????????????:BangHead:

 

[DaveO]

The bark looks a lot like sour wood to me---------????????

Jerry

That's a very good ID also.

http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/subthumb.cfm?sub=3312&start=1

But I haven't seen Sourwoods with that thick of trunk girth :icon_scra

Dave

 

[jeff...]

Thanks Jeff----------I have mistakenly been calling a tree that grows in my area "sourwood" that has bark nothing like the picture in the link you posted.:embarrassed: Now----I wonder, what is the tree I have been calling sourwood?????????????????:BangHead:

Does the wood taste sour? might just be sour wood then I don't know I usually end up snorting the saw dust instead accidentally of course :tongue100:

 

[jeff...]

That's a very good ID also.

http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/subthumb.cfm?sub=3312&start=1

But I haven't seen Sourwoods with that thick of trunk girth :icon_scra

Dave

We have a sourwood ID discrepancy
http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/subthumb.cfm?sub=3312&start=1
http://www.dof.virginia.gov/trees/sourwood.shtml

What gives?

 

[DaveO]

Yea, I noticed that :dontknow: In my experience the Sourwood bark looks more my pic than yours :-D:lol::lol:

The real key is the fall leaf color, Sourwood has some of the most intense red coloration of any tree species in this local
Dave

 

[jeff...]

Yea, I noticed that :dontknow: In my experience the Sourwood bark looks more my pic than yours :-D:lol::lol:

The real key is the fall leaf color, Sourwood has some of the most intense red coloration of any tree species in this local
Dave

I should learn not to trust the government - hu?

Jermey - if you can't find a leaf at least give us a little peak at what the inside of the bark looks like - take a hammer a lobe a little piece off - not to much... you don't want to cat face the trunk but just a little chip I think would be would be ok.

 

[jeff...]

More Sourwood info ---> http://www.smokymountainnews.com/issues/8_01/8_01_01/back_then.shtml

On second though if it is a sourwood tree - leave it stand and get you a bee hive instead

Or heres a few more ideas --->
http://books.google.com/books?id=sk...Y5VmvMJ&sig=FSa95NkkY3R29fWxHWtlCwIzOaE&hl=en

I wonder if I snort the bark if it will produce the same nerve calming effect instead of soaking bark in water overnight and drinking it - bet it tastes awful either way

 

[Threejs]

I believe that is Charlotte's weed tree (aka sweet gum). Two things I have learned about these trees since living here.

1. If they die, cut them down quickly. Duke power cut one of our back, and the next year we had them come back out to bring it down because it died. They didn't cut it down, and much as they pulled it down. Once they die, the trees will get grubs in them that bore them out, and make them a hazard.

2. If you plan to split that for firewood, rent a log splitter. An axe won't do, and a wedge will be buried up to the hilt, before the log breaks (they really dont split evenly)

 

[welldigger]

Might be a Black Gum tree

 

[McRabbet]

Hope no one minds, but I moved this thread to the correct forum -- it didn't belong in General Woodworking.

 

[walnutjerry]

We have a sourwood ID discrepancy
http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/subthumb.cfm?sub=3312&start=1
http://www.dof.virginia.gov/trees/sourwood.shtml

What gives?

Now I am confused:rolf:. Really, Jeff, the first pic you posted in response to my first post looked more like some specie of spruce pine to me. But I have been wrong many, many times.

Jerry

 

[jmauldin]

Bark looks almost identical to a tree I have in my back yard - green ash.
That should add to the confusion.
Jim in Mayberry