Trees from a distance

[theXman]

Syringa vulgaris, liliac tree.

 

[theXman]

Syringa reticulata, matches your flowers better i guess.

 

[robinia]

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liliac?

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I'll assume you are guessing Syringa reticulata?

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...or maybe not.
Anyway I bet you are now!

Nicely done!

 

[theXman]

i had punched in tree lilac on google to get the latin name and the first stupid site listed the latin name wrong, as in the bush lilac, not the tree lilac i was looking for.

so honestly, thats why my first latin name was wrong.

i meant japanese lilac tree. (Syringa reticulata). I've only seen one of these here in Maryland. It was at my brothers new house, he didn't know what it was, I saw it in the winter and I had an extremely hard time IDing it, i didn't get it right, guess fring tree. then in spring it bloomed and he said it looked just like a lilac and smelled great too. That's when i looked it up again and found japanese lilac tree.

I'm sure there must be more, but only one i've seen.

 

[theXman]

spring time.

all three of these trees are the same specie.

 

[tomthetreeman]

Looks like American Elm. Couldn't be that easy, could it?

 

[theXman]

yeah it actaully is that easy but you didn't get it yet.

I just threw out an easy picture. Common tree here.

 

[tomthetreeman]

I'm staying with the elms... Ulmus rubra, slippery elm.

I'll check in later, gotta do some site work today.

-Tom

 

[robinia]

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I saw it in the winter and I had an extremely hard time IDing it, i didn't get it right, guess fring tree. .

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I'd say you did pretty well! Getting that close on a tree you've never seen before - and even the right family!

But back to business:
~ Juglans nigra?

 

[JeffL]

I'll be very common and say acer rubrum

 

[brushbandit]

Ulmus pumila

 

[climbncut]

Juglans nigra

 

[climbncut]

I just noticed Robina already guessed walnut...I'm gonna go w Carya cordiformis. Def looks like a late bloomer species

 

[theXman]

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~ Juglans nigra?

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you got it.

Climbncut, I didn't notice he had written it either until you said he did.

good eye noticing that it was a late "bloomer".

you would have won that one, but Robinia got it first.

up Rob.

 

[robinia]

Help yourself Climbncut.

What have you got?

 

[robinia]

Here's one while we're waiting on Climbncut:

 

[HÖLLENREICH]

Maple, red

 

[tomthetreeman]

That is surely a maple, I'm going to guess campestre.

-Tom

 

[robinia]

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I'm going to guess campestre.

-Tom

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Yep. Tom the reigning champ!

 

[tomthetreeman]

Here's a pic from one of yesterday's jobs. While some may scoff at this type of pruning, the aim was to preserve the tree and to prevent failure of large limbs, which has already happened three times before. You can see some of the defects in the pic, and there are others that you can't see. So this major crown reduction was a reinvention of the crown, so to speak. ...I figured I'd explain the work before the scoffing started.

This is a rather large specimen for it's species, possibly even champion status despite the major reduction.

-Tom