My first thought was black walnut but TOH does have similar leaves. Bark pic will do it. TOH has smoother light gray/silvery bark, walnut has furrowed bark.
Okay SS wood. Takes longer to dry than silver maple or tulip poplar IME. I dont go out of my way for it, but if primo straight and an easy grab ill take it.
I'm a early learner with species ID. For me the poplar has a thin smoothish bark that reminds me of grey birch. Could someone post foliage and bark pictures of beech and poplar to show the differences?
What kind of poplar? In New England there’s tulip poplar which is in the magnolia family and not a true poplar, and there’s quaking & bigtooth aspen which are both sometimes called poplar. Edit: I think if you’re trying to compare poplar with beech you’re talking about quaking/bigtooth aspen (poplar) Here’s a picture of the bark anyway. As the tree ages, the lower trunk gets furrowed bark, while the upper parts of the tree retain smooth, almost birch-like bark.
Here is a tulip poplar you can recognize in winter. The bark appears like it has a white powder in the fissures of the bark and you'll see the (skeleton of) the tulip blooms in the canopy. Poplars are nice straight trees usually with no low branches as they die off.
Here’s Liriodendron tulipifera aka Poplar bark. I don’t have any Beech pics, but the bark is smooth. Imo the leaves are distinctly different in size and shape. Beech also has a serrated leaf.
Guys, I think our friend is talking about aspen rather than tulip. I thought I had a picture showing them side by side but can't seem to find them. Now I'll have to locate a beech to take a picture. The beech here have all been cut down.
Beech: smooth silver gray bark on young and old trees, Tulip (yellow) poplar: mature tree. Note whitish fungus in the crevices as stated in prior post Immature tulip poplar There are other species of poplar. Cottonwood is also referred to as poplar in certain parts of the country. Beech is the last tree to lose its leaves. Often holding onto them into the dead of Winter.
Heyya all, first time posting and I need some help with identifying this tree I had to take out so a larger one didn't get hung up. It's really dence and stringy like hickory
Looks like some sort of elm to me. One of the stringiest to split. Welcome to the FHC WardenChillington Great to have you. Were the dysfuntional family you'll want to spend time with!
M Thanks for the quick replies! Yeah it does have some " barnyard funk " to it but not black oaky or anything I could put my finger ...or nose in this case...on. My kinda folk!
One other clue that led me to say elm was the "exit wound". The end of the split that was opposite where the blade (or axe if hand split) contacted the round. Its often uneven. Look carefully at your pic and the end of the split far left is classic of elm.
If you’re talking about Ailanthus I’d strongly discourage anyone from cutting it down. It’s HIGHLY invasive and cutting it down will send up suckers all around it causing you to have even more trees and once it gets established you’re pretty much screwed. The only way to get rid of TOH is the hack and squirt method and you should definitely do this every year when you find them
Hello forum dwellers. I've got a new home with an insert last year and now I'm here with you. Over the winter, I have learned a lot of new concepts like coaling, lenticels, opposite leaves, leaf scars, rays, etc. Still, it's very difficult for me to ID many trees. Can somebody help me IDing this one? The wood is kinda heavy. For me, the cut smells like some kind of flavored coffee. My wife said, nope. Oak, chestnut, TOH or what?
