They're either a big bush or a really crappy small tree...I can't tell. But they're spread everywhere and I've been cutting them down in the any areas I'm working in. I looked on google images and the bark tells me autumn olive but I haven't seen the leaves yet and they're just starting to pop. Any ideas? I'm cutting them down and throwing them in piles, hopefully they'll rot quickly.
Hard to tell with the pictures but up here I'm fighting Asian bush honeysuckle. Break a stem. Is the center hollow? Autumn olive is another invasive here but not as prevalent.
Thanks for the replies. I'll try and get better pictures when I'm in the woods again. I've chainsawed through the bigger ones and the trunks are not hollow...not sure about the branch tips though if that's what you mean. They're a major pain in the butt. They're always in the way of where you want to work.
Gotcha. I just did a google search on spicebush like someone mentioned and it looks suspiciously like that in the pictures of the flowers early blooming. Lindera benzoin - Wikipedia
I would have said Autumn Olive as well but Autumn Olive does not produce yellow flowers. So I'll just and
I'm in an all out war with both. With all the ash dying off honeysuckle and olive are taking over. They spread like wildfire and block out everything else from growing.
Autumn olive has thorns and you can not stop it from spreading by just cutting. It has to be either sprayed or dug out root and all. Ralphie Boy it is not from the ash dyng off, it is from the birds eating the berries then pooping. We have the stuff all over the place, even in thick areas. It can grow exceedingly fast too. One time I cut a bush or clump of it and within a month or so it had grown over a foot.
That's true but the dead ash, or should I say, the open space created by removing the dead ash, has given the honeysuckle and olive an easy area to take over and once either, or both, start growing nothing else stands a chance.
My forsythia in the yard looks about like that unless I trim them back to produce new flowers. They only seem to flower on new wood.
Forsythia should be pruned back, when the yellow flowers start to fade. Will allow the bush to grow fuller, and under control. Sent from my XT1030 using Tapatalk
MO Wood nailed it. They're spicebush and there's A LOT of them. I did a Google search to get rid of them, and instead, I found forums for people who want these damm things...but mostly for the butterflies they attract...whatever. On top of that, people who planted them and are upset they died...unbelievable. I should join and ask how they killed them... I don't care about butterflies, I only care about them crowding out the saplings.
