Indentify this tree

[Roger_Barnett]

Mark,

Your conifer pics are a bit blurry...so I have to guess:

Dawn redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides.
or
Chinese Fir, Cunninghamia lanceolata

Edit, your trunk pic shows the foliage better, definitely China fir.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

You got it Roger! China fir. You can't tell from my pics, but it is a 'glauca' as well. The foliage I showed was not in the sunlight. Well done. Are they common near you?

 

[tshanefreeman]

Leaves resemble Quercus falcata (Southern Red Oak/Swamp Spanish Oak). But the columnar growth habit is questionable................variety 'pagodifolia'?

 

[klimbinfool]

Who ever guessed Ailanthus ( tree of heaven ) was correct.

Mark , you beat me to the punch. I was gone all weekend and had a Dawn Redwood to post when I came back. So here is a full picture of the tree.

Greg

 

[Roger_Barnett]

Hey Mark! There's a few china fir around the PNW. Usually a bit ratty appearing. But unique and different, so cool. Cryptomeria, incense cedar, and dawn redwood are more attractive..and also rather uncommon.

 

[Eric_E]

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Half way there...Quercus is correct. That norrows it down since there aren't too many fastigate Oaks.

 

[Eric_E]

Good one Mark!!

I have only seen one Cunninghamia. Thought it might have been Sciadopitys verticillata, Umbrella-pine.

 

[klimbinfool]

Eric ...leaves looks like Pin , but shape of tree seems to be wrong..hmmm .got me thinking here

 

[Estebandito]

This is in response to a post on this tree ID heading a while back.

Deodar Cedar grow in the east. There is one planted at the Virginia Tech Agriculture research station in VA Beach, VA. Pretty tree twin stem with with each stem measuring approx 45" plus. It is snowing here in coastal VA at 9 pm. Might have a rest day tomorrow.

Keep the ID coming.

Is there going to be a separate discussion forum for Tree ID?

 

[NickfromWI]

Alright, I can't take this insanity any more! We need to start putting a number code along with the pictures and the guesses and the answers so we all know what pictures we're talking about!

So I'll start. This is a super easy one if you know it. Some of you may have never seen anything like this, though...

TREE ID #1...

I hope whoever goes next will follow suit

love
nick

 

[Bonsaikent]

Nick these are cool trees (TreeID#1). Tulip trees or Tulip Poplars (Liriodendron tulipifera) are in the Magnolia family. The flowers really look like tulips. I here these trees can get huge, like 200'! The ones I have seen are only 40' or so.

Kenton

 

[klimbinfool]

I have to agree with Kenton on your TreeID #1, nick. They do get tall Kenton. I'm not sure were they get two hundred feet , but in our area upwards of eighty to a hundred.

Try this Tree ID #2

 

[Roger_Barnett]

#2, my guess is Jeffrey or Japanese Black pine.

Here's one that should be easy for some,

Tree ID3#:

 

[mpriley02]

Klimbinfool - We just climbed a 186' tulip today in the Cataloochee district of the Smokies. We set up the ropes for next week when big tree guru Bob Van Pelt is coming to laser measure the volume (should have a lot of wood - circumference at breast height is 22'5" and circ. at 105' up is still 13'2"!) I've got some pics if you'd like to see them...
Mike

 

[klimbinfool]

Rodger , nope on #2 , but here is another pic #2.2

I would guess Ponderosa, but I dont think thats right

 

[klimbinfool]

YEs Mike, definatly . I have never seen a Tulip that large .

Thanks
Greg

 

[Dan_House]

Big Tulipifera\'s

Kilmer Old Growth Forest
Just walking beneath towering Rhoedendrons is breath-taking; but to climb into the embrace of these limbs is awesome.

See you at the top, Dan House

 

[Roger_Barnett]

Re: Big Tulipifera\'s

I have heard that tulips once existed as tall as 220 feet!! Great to hear Robert Van Pelt is visiting the great tulip forest.

There are two biggies in Seattle. One is over 135 feet tall, in a smallish front yard, and growing very fast. The other is 105 feet tall, and is almost 20 feet in circumference, but it splits into two trunks down low, so is hard to assign AFA points to. We pruned and cabled it last year. It's in a tiny front yard. I took slides and prints, but haven't digitized any that I know of.

Another pic of Tree ID #3:

 

[Eric_E]

Greg,

You are correct on Pin Oak. Anyone Know what cultivar it is?

 

[mpriley02]

Big Tulip Pictures

Here's some pictures from the climb - Sag Branch tulip poplar (whoops! 168', not 186'-sorry).

http://www.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=67b0de21b34b0a134532

The last two shots are composites (I don't have a twin)