Trees from a distance

[robinia]

This will be a quick turnaround. Maybe everyone can play dumb?!?
Anyway it made me look twice... weird form.
Rob

 

[tomthetreeman]

Caucasian wingnut?

Hahaha I just felt like saying that.

-Tom

 

[robinia]

are you conceeding?

...actually it's Laburnum, but don't tell!

 

[tomthetreeman]

That's a big Laburnum.

Funny, I thought they were at or beyond their Northernmost range here in RI. Must be a different specie.

-Tom

 

[tomthetreeman]

Obviously I was kidding about that being a big Laburnum.

It's an American Elm.

-Tom

 

[robinia]

Tom,
You're too good to get to be a guesser. You're always up!

 

[tomthetreeman]

Someone else can have my turn. I'm almost out of pictures.

-Tom

 

[Starlet]

okay i am back in town where is the pictures? i need all the practice i can get!!!

 

[MattyD]

Extremely easy! Just throwin it out

 

[tomthetreeman]

Norway Maple (Crimson King?) with a side of Pin Oak?

-Tom

 

[Starlet]

which tree is it the one someone is in or the one closest to us?

 

[MattyD]

Oh sorry starlet. Tom got it tho.
How about the little tree behind the Norway and the tree to the right of the pin oak you can barely see?

Somebody post a pic anytime

 

[Starlet]

i will try this one? another one of my many report and study trees. good luck

 

[robinia]

Franklinia alatamaha?
(another tree I've never seen in real life...)

 

[Starlet]

you are soooo correct!!!! i love this tree the blooms are beautiful, i am doing a big project for one of the colleges, this is one of the trees we are using.

 

[robinia]

Wow, I should always guess trees I don't know!
How about this one - the funky roots in the middle.

 

[theXman]

hemlock.

and Tom back there on MattyDs, that was even a Crimson King Norway Maple, you got the whole thing! ha! you're the king of trees from a distance.

 

[robinia]

Not hemlock. (At least according to Google Images... sorry! I didn't have anything new...)

Not much to work with here. The clue is the way it's growing - what else does this?

 

[tomthetreeman]

Rob, I'm going to say Norway spruce.

And X, the guess of Crimson King was based on a couple things. One is that they tend to have a slightly different, more diminutive crown shape than regular Norway maple, and two is that the tree looks like it was planted in the border along the driveway, and I don't see that many intentionally planted Norways.

Now watch Matt come back and say it was actually just a regular Norway maple!

-Tom

 

[robinia]

I would think either X-Man or Tom were right, but apparently not. Anyway here is another photo of the same type of tree.

I've said it before but this time for certain. I'm not digging into Google Images anymore for that reason- who's labeling these photos?