Stumped

[Steve Connally]

located in Virginia beach VA
Looks like a mulberry. Bleeds a gooey white sap like a mulberry but the wood feels wrong and the branch attachment is different. All the sucker growth was supe light weight but the wood was heavy as can be. I'm at a loss on this one.

 

[Steve Connally]

If this helps. A neighbor has the same species of tree but it had this mushroom growth that I'm also having trouble getting the specific species of mushrooms. Looks like many but not exactly.

 

[Nish]

Not paper mulberry?

 

[Steve Connally]

Hmmm. Let me look that up

 

[TreeCo]

Might be paulownia.

 

[Steve Connally]

Certainly looks like it. I have never seen one around here before. That's interesting. Thanks. You win the prize Can you is the schrooms?
Paper mulberry

 

[Nish]

They could be some kind of oyster mushroom, which do like mulberry wood. Not to0 many trees secrete latex this far outside the tropics. There's fig, osage orange, mulberry, and paper mulberry. Any others?

 

[Steve Connally]

They did look like oyster mushrooms. I cook with them all the time but I'm not brave enough to harvest my own.

 

[oldoakman]

Paulownia has a large open pith. The wood is light in weight and the pith chamber is 3/4 to 1 inch in diameter.

 

[Treezybreez]

Buds are in the wrong orientation for Mulberry and Paulownia.

 

[Treezybreez]

Never mind, It does look like Paulownia.

 

[Treezybreez]

Have enough good wood to make a surf board?

 

[Steve Connally]

I looked up paulownia. It really doesn't look like it to me. The growth and structure of both trees are totally different from what the id fact sheet says. Are the buds wrong for paper mulberry?

 

[Treezybreez]

All mulberry have alternate buds. Your pics show opposite.

 

[Steve Connally]

Ok. Wish I had asked the customer if this tree flowered. I assume it didn't because she said it was the ugliest tree ever

 

[RopeShield]

Wahoo?

 

[robinia]

I don't think the neighbors tree is the same. His looks like Phellodendron amurense.
Also, this photo ( http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/attachments/image-jpeg.36392/ ) looks to have two different twigs- one is opposite, one is alternate...

 

[robinia]

These two look like Phellodendron:
http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/attachments/image-jpeg.36389/
http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/attachments/image-jpeg.36393/ (note the yellow heartwood)

The others were maybe mixed in from other plants??

 

[Nish]

The Peterson and Audubon field guides say that paper mulberry leaves are sometimes opposite. Milky sap limits the candidates. These other trees don't have it.

 

[robinia]

Looks like Nish is right.
I'm not familiar with paper mulberry but a quick google image search looks like it fits. Also the milky sap.