Trees from a distance

[Basswood]

No sir

 

[Basswood]

More of a forest tree found at the edges than a choice landscape tree; although it should be planted more. The roots make awesome tea.

 

[Serf Life]

Sassafras

 

[Basswood]

@Serf Life got it

 

[Serf Life]

 

[JD3000]

Sassafras

Damn big sassafras

 

[Basswood]

Yeah huge one, one of the biggest I’ve seen.

 

[Basswood]

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Valley oak?

 

[Serf Life]

Nope. There’s sassafras tea from the roots and one of its compounds is a precursor to mdma(or mda?) so I’d guess concentrates of sassafras are controlled. Probably would lead to good times in the bedroom though.

 

[Basswood]

I made the tea by just boiling the roots in hot water. A farmer in Indiana gave me a bundle of what would have been nearly a lifetime supply. It got confiscated when I brought it along with me to backpack through New Zealand.

 

[Njdelaney]

It is a carcinogen as well although you have to drink it all the time to be in danger. It makes for a damn fine canoe paddle. Light, strong and beautiful. Made this one a couple years back and it has held up to some serious paddling.

 

[Basswood]

Wow that’s news to me.

 

[Serf Life]

Pretty good description of different woods for making paddles from one of the best. Sassafras is the craftsman favorite.https://www.shawandtenney.com/blog/wooden-canoe-paddles-oars-species
https://www.shawandtenney.com/blog/wooden-canoe-paddles-oars-species

 

[Serf Life]

New guesses?

 

[robinia]

Maybe Salix?
S. nigra?

 

[Serf Life]

Not Salix

 

[colb]

Not Salix

I think we need a hint on this one. I'm hoping I get it because today I took a picture of a beautiful emergent specimen in someone's front yard.

 

[Serf Life]

Not a Maine tree. Picture sent from fam on the West Coast.

 

[colb]

Not a Maine tree. Picture sent from fam on the West Coast.

Is it an oak?

 

[Njdelaney]

Quercus agrifolia?