Tree ID

[TonyF]

Birch? Can someone ID this tree? There are many of them concentrated in one area to rear of our property. None of the pictures in my tree books can match it up exactly.

Tony

 

[jimmyj]

That's not like any birch I have ever seen. I don't know AL that well, but here we have maples that look like that. They grow in wet areas.

 

[smstonypoint]

If the first photo is a closeup of the second photo, I'm guessing young tulip (yellow) poplar.

Steve

Edit -- I think I see small beech trees in the second photo (brown leaves).

 

[Willl]

Alder ?

 

[jinman]

I'm thinking maybe beech.

 

[woodchuckie]

That is a beech in the background with the brown leaves on it. We have lots of small beech in wet low areas. We don't have any as big as the tree in your picture.

 

[smstonypoint]

That is a beech in the background with the brown leaves on it. We have lots of small beech in wet low areas. We don't have any as big as the tree in your picture.

And the slender upright growth without low limbs argues against beech, or at least the ones I'm familiar with.

Steve

 

[forgeblast]

Looks like a sugar maple. They grow pretty good in the wet areas on our property. Its wet and has a good canopy so there is moss on it, but i would look around the base for a leaf, easier to match it with a leaf.

 

[BoonvilleKid]

My guess, of the first photograph, is yellow popular or tulip. A beautiful tree. Now, don't you even think about cutting those!!

 

[TonyF]

Thanks guys. I've owned the property for less than a year so don't really know how wet it stays. The area is somewhat low and I've been told it stays moist. In fact, I got a mini-ex stuck back there a week or so ago. But, we had a hot dry summer and it did dry out this summer. It borders a farmer's field which holds a little water.

The canopy is pretty heavy, most of the trees I've removed have been long and thin reaching for the sunlight.

I'm in the process of clearing a work area back there to store debris until I can burn it. I still have about 30 blasted sweet gum trees to pull out from the front.

Tony

 

[TonyF]

My guess, of the first photograph, is yellow popular or tulip. A beautiful tree. Now, don't you even think about cutting those!!

Don't worry there is plenty more I'll find out in the summer if blooms.

 

[smstonypoint]

Don't worry there is plenty more I'll find out in the summer if blooms.

Better try the spring.

Steve

 

[TonyF]

I believe we have it, American Hornbeam aka Ironwood. Actually of the birch family but named after beech because it looks similar. Supposedly makes good firewood.

American Hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana)

american hornbeam

The small trees in the background with brown leaves still on them are indeed American Beech.

Tony

 

[LD1]

I believe we have it, American Hornbeam aka Ironwood. Actually of the birch family but named after beech because it looks similar. Supposedly makes good firewood.

American Hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana)

american hornbeam

The small trees in the background with brown leaves still on them are indeed American Beech.

Tony

Not sure that is ironwood in your first pic. Ironwood (at least around here) doesnt have smooth round bark like your pic. It's hard to describe but the tree isnt really round. It is more like a fluted gun barrel. Very pronounced.

I agree though that we need a leaf to better identify.

 

[MossRoad]

Birch? Can someone ID this tree? There are many of them concentrated in one area to rear of our property. None of the pictures in my tree books can match it up exactly.

Tony

Looks like beech bark to me. Compare to these google images of other beech barks.

beech bark - Google Search

 

[MossRoad]

By the way, that one on the ground in the 2nd picture appears to be dead.






:laughing:

 

[woodchopper]

I say Maple

Dennis

 

[studor]

Not 100% sure what it is but I know it is not Maple or hop hornbeam (Ironwood). Maple loses its smooth bark quickly and ironwood bark around here is kinda shaggy in appearance definitely not that smooth-- but we call hop hornbeam ironwood . Ironwood does make great firewood -- I cut a lot of it each year and as a result, need to sharpen a lot of chains
Could be American hornbeam or poplar -- if it is a tough saw then it is not the poplar. Both grow up quickly if the land was grazed or cut in the last twenty to thirty years and both are relatively short lived -- JMHO

 

[LD1]

Here is a good picture that kinda show what I was talking about.

Notice the deep furrows. If you saw a thin slice out of it in the direction that you would cut firewood, it is not round. Kinda looks more like a gear or sprocket

Google Image Result for http://ironwoodtree.com/philosophy/imagegallery/images/ironwood_tree.jpg

And I have always been told that it got the knickname "ironwood" because of how hard it is on chainsaw chains. Like trying to cut Iron.