Hey guys was wondering what treesI have here. I think the first one ia box elder not sure about the second.sorry for the sideways pics I rotate them on my phonw and they still load that way.
yea the second one I dont think is river birch. Its a very dark brown color of bark. And I may just take those ash down since I'm sure sometime soon EAB will reach this area. Definitely taking a big limb down that overhangs where we park our cars.
I disagree on the ash judgement. I believe you have hickory there. Grey smooth bark and the fat lobeyness to the leaves look like hickory to me.
Not according to this chart. http://firewoodhoardersclub.com/forums/index.php?threads/tree-id-help-links.82/ The leaflets may be opposite, but the leaves are alternate on hickory. Ash is opposite for both leaflets and leaves. Both have compound leaves..
Every picture in your attachment is a picture of a "compound leaf" that is composed of 5-9 Leaflets.. As I said, the leaflets are opposite. The compound leaves on hickory are alternate. Just like the Shagbark Hickory seedling on this page. http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/fnr/stoutwoods/vrtrail03.html Unfortunately, that's the best example I can find.. Ash is different in that the compound leaves are opposite each other on the twig.. The chart is correct.
Each of those pics (with one exception) shows one compound leaf, made up of a stem and several leaflets. On a tree that has alternate compound leaves, it's the stems of the compound leaves that alternate, not the leaflets within each compound leaf. I don't think the OP's pic makes it at all clear whether the compound leaves are alternate or opposite, but the shape of the leaflets, being much fatter towards the outside end, looks more like hickory to me. The leaves of the ash I'm familiar with are roughly football-shaped.
