Great bark pattern!

[NickfromWI]

Here's one that I THINK I know what it is. But I've not seen one in SoCal this big or shaped like this at ALL, so I'm baffled on this one.

Here's a pic of the whole tree

 

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Here's how the branches look from below...

 

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The leaves

 

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Closer look at a leaflet

 

[NickfromWI]

The trunk looks nice

 

[NickfromWI]

And the kicker- this tree just started leafing out in the past week. This looks like the beginning of something that just might be edible....

 

[No_Bivy]

Some type of Hickory? Dunno....

 

[Tom_Scheller]

English Walnut - Juglans regia???

TS

 

[NickfromWI]

Tom, I think you are at least on the right track. When I crushed the leaves and young seed, it had the unmistakable smell of walnut. Thought I didn't notice any staining when I rubbed it on a nearby picnic table bench.

I think later in the spring I'll be able to look at "mature" leaves to see how they are shaped, and see how the fruit shapes up, to get a good ID on it.

Any good NUT id-ers here?

love
nick

 

[No_Bivy]

Butternut = White Walnut?

 

[WPArborist]

Bark doesn't look like the butternuts from around my area. Maybe a pignut hickory?

WP

 

[NickfromWI]

No Bivy- that's what I thought it was. But I haven't climbed a butternut/white walnut for a few years and couldn't quite remember what they look like.

I'll go back for some more pics later.

love
nick

 

[Tom_Scheller]

Might be butternut... the bark is a lot closer than my first guess of English walnut. The leaves are similar in shape.

Any teeth on those leaves?

TS

 

[WPArborist]

can I change my answer? I'm going with english walnut (shouldn't look a pics so early in the morning). You could get good and sweaty, and let some sawdust sit on your skin for awhile, if it burns it's probably a juglans of some sort. Any else get this?

WP

 

[frans]

The bark, leaves, poor compartmentalization, branch structure, all tell me walnut. Exactly what walnut? Dont know but I would suspect English walnut

 

[MikePoor]

Yeah juglans regia/english walnut! The best tasting eng. wlnts. i've ever had were in california. We'd be out on a job, and you could just give them a tap with the heel of your red wing boot (cause we wore the big heavy boots back then....not so great for footlocking, so anyway...!) and that would open the best tasting walnuts ever. The eng. wlnts. here never get passed up by the squirels! Thanks for posting Nick!