I know what it is but figure I would throw this out there for people to sharpen their ID skills,came across a few weeks ago, took some home. Sorry didn’t get any tree/twig pictures.
Hybrid honey locust??? Yard tree. Here was my thread. Found Myself Another Honey! Hybrid left, normal HL right
Some sort of hybridized/ornamental locust....shademaster maybe. Basically honey locust without the thorns and giant pods.
It is scary how much the two species look alike after seeing your pictures, I thought for a sec that I miss ID'd mine.
I have a handful on my property, I cut one a few years ago thinking it was a locust cause of the pods. A friend and I went to process it and realized it wasn’t locust. I had never heard of that tree till then.
Maybe mine is KCT as im not 100% sure what it is? The other split is definitely HL hybrid as ive also scrounged some at the dump. The tree in question was among a group of planted trees in a yard. Its very dense like HL so i stacked them together. Did you look at all the pics from the link of my thread mr.finn ?
Even then, the hybrids can look like the "Normal" HL. All the HL here I see that's absolutely positively hybrid HL ( sidewalk trees, and yard trees of homes built in the 50's to present), looks like the regular HL that you show on the right. There's no Kentucky coffee tree here, but it's crazy how similar those trees look, bark, trunk, and cross sectionally at least. I'm sure the branch structure would give the locust away.
The left split and all the pictures im not 100% sure what it is. Just that the wood was HL like. The right split is from a HL yard tree.
Yeah I think it's Kentucky coffee tree as well. I had a huge one fall on our house 2 summers ago. Required a crane to get it off the house and out of the creek. If you find any of the pods, it's a dead give away. I'll let you know how it burns next season.
I don't think it's Kentucky coffee tree. This is the bark of the coffee tree. Also see: Virginia Tech Dendrology Fact Sheet
"The Kentucky coffeetree is native to the central states of America from Pennsylvania to Nebraska and from Minnesota to Oklahoma. This tree gets its name because early Kentucky settlers noticed the resemblance of its seeds to coffee beans. In earlier times, its wood was used in the construction of railway sleeper cars."
Good point RB. The OP is from Massachusetts so not native there. Is KCT (not KFC) planted as an ornamental? Does any FHC member know? The mystery deepens! If i were to bet money the bark on the pic you posted looks like red oak, but its obviously not.
