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  1. Ctwoodtick

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    D952E247-3359-457D-9C39-302AAB53FC8A.jpeg 1019FDB0-BAAA-4F29-A0E4-1A73DDDB9F9B.jpeg I’m thinking red, but the shaggy bark is throwing me off?
     
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    Are those maple leaves or tulip poplar leaves ?
     
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    • Tol me they look like red maple leaves, they were very small, which I know to look trees have much larger leaves usually.
     
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    Red maple I believe. Not tulip for sure. Tulip dosn't have shaggy bark. Tulip looks kind of like ash bark.
     
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    Whatever it is, I wouldn’t want that double leader tree with included bark leaning over my house.
     
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    Not Tulip but they’re nice straight trunks. Good wood!!
     
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    Can you zoom to the leaves? I saw a similar one on Mohawk Mountain last year. Had shaggy bark, but maplish leaves. Couldnt ID it. I never posted a thread here. IMG_0654.JPG IMG_0655.JPG
     
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    Definitely Maple. Red and Norway can both have shaggy bark like that. Hard to say which it is.
     
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    I did some research and its probably a black maple as is the tree i pictured. Very similar to sugar and considered a subspecies of it.
     
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    You didn’t bring it home for further study?
     
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    I have never seen a red maple with bark like that
     
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    I did not. We were camping last Summer and in usual buZZsaw fashion i was checking out trees!
    Great views from Mohawk mountain. Take a ride sometime.
     
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    Leaves will give the answer. I've never seen a red with shaggy bark but maples will cross breed easily so you may have some kind of mutt.
     
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    I bee seen a ‘shagbark maple’ in the wild. There was a red maple in my parents that had that shag bark look. The tornado two years ago took it down.
     
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    Could be. A good close up of these leaves would definitely help. There's a lot of trees with bark that looks similar. The leaves typically give it away.
     
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    Doesn't matter much. Cut it and burn it!
     
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    Thanks for all the responses everyone. I think I agree with being black maple. I feel like I haven’t seen many of those, so I really wasn’t sure what I was looking at when I saw it.
     
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    Saw another one today in a state forest in Granby. Enders Falls. Great day trip. Didnt have camera with me.
     
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    I don’t think it’a silver. I just scored some this morning and it has a much smoother bark. Also silver maple leaves look like sugar maple leaves but have more pronounced points.
     
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