Thanks everyone for the replies. Here's how i came to my black birch idea. Admittedly i had never walked out to that tree specifically until i took those pictures. I only ever saw it from the bedroom window. There're a few white birch on that property line that have similar horizontal lines. I didn't even look up or realize black birch bark changed so much as it matures. About like black cherry. Side thought: anyone know of a tree id book that has pictures of young and mature tree bark?
Took a walk around the property today and took a couple pictures. Here's a hophornbeam? I thought was pretty cool. This one makes me think black birch again but it's not native to my area. Maybe aspen. It was the only one it the immediate area. Up high you can see where the bark gets smooth and lighter color if you look close. Here's one i didn't recognize but thought it was weird with how straight the bark is.
First picture looks like ironwood (hophornbeam) to me. Second picture looks like bigtooth aspen. The last looks like a mystree. I’d need to see twigs/buds to guess.
Thanks for the reply! Looks like i wasn't too far off. There's some unique trees in this little chunk of woods that butts up to wet/grassy lowland. I'll have to see if i can get down there late spring on that one. Its basically what i need to wait on for any definitive answer on some. Leaves are just so much easier.
That very well could be. It was my first thought but don't have much to go off of. There's alot of smaller/med size American Elm here.
I was thinking slippery because in one of the pictures, you can see where the bark is cut away it’s a chocolate brown color inside. American elm bark has multicolored layers inside.
The hop hornbeam is cool. Only have seen small saplings around here. Im with Eric on the second one being aspen. Third tree could be basswood. Chip a flake or two of bark off and ifs its brown it more than likely is basswood. Great pics BTW!
That is exactly my thought, I have a few in our woods. The first is Hop hornbeam/ Ironwood, the second is a poplar/ aspen, third is red Elm. Not sure what part of the mitten you are in, but all common for me just north of TC
Hophornbeam is one of my favorite trees, Have a bunch of decent size sapling on my property that I will save for sure. The pic of the bottom of the Aspen tree I thought for sure from that bark it was a Sass tree then I saw the canopy picture. I'm stumped on the 3rd tree.
Definitely not river birch. I've got a bunch of them and they have brown, peeling papery bark. Looks just like the trunk on my ornamental weeping cherry. It's a grafted tree, so I don't know what type of cherry stock they use for the trunk. But it looks just like your photo.
You ever burn any? It's a common understory tree in my forest. I've cut some that were 6" diameter and 50+ years old. They grow slow in the deep shade of a hickory-oak forest. It burns great but the small rounds take 2-3 years to dry. Burns a lot of hawthorn -- another very fine firewood.
