Trees from a distance

[tomthetreeman]

Biggest Catalpa ever?

 

[utlarb4trees]

looks elmish???????????????Not quite vase shaped though

 

[RopeShield]

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Biggest Catalpa ever?

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Big Nope oides.

 

[RopeShield]

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looks elmish???????????????Not quite vase shaped though

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Ulmus. No sir.

 

[tomthetreeman]

Shagbark hickotry?

 

[JeffL]

Hows about celtis maybe?

 

[tomthetreeman]

Wow, good call Jeff. That would be a monster, though!

 

[RopeShield]

Sorry to the Carya.

and

No berries.

 

[JeffL]

Really? I've only seen a few Hackberry around my parts, and the only single one I've ever climbed wasnt terribly much smaller than that, big double stemmer. Guess I should be honored.

Is it so simple as just a big old acer platenoides?

 

[tomthetreeman]

Linden. T. cordata methinks.

 

[JeffL]

The over arching limbs didnt really scream norway to me, I'd put them more on a silver, but now that you say Tilia I think you've got it?

 

[RopeShield]

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Linden. T. cordata methinks.

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American Basswood, you got it.

It is huge, I am afraid to get close to it.
This species hates Arborists. Shattered a friends shoulder like apple pie. Grabbed my rope and left me stuck in the tree in cold winter for about an hour, thought I was going to die. Had to man up and free climb.
Barnes feel asleep in the truck runnin. He was alot bigger than me and had this contagious laugh, so that was that.
If you leave a little bark on a cut it will peel all the way to the ground.Like rope it is.
Rots and hollows like crazy.
Produces nutlets that birds and mammals love.

 

[dylanclimbs]

Ok I've got one, it may take me a sec to embed it, or I might give up and just post a link

 

[tomthetreeman]

Calocedrus decurrens?

 

[robinia]

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Linden. T. cordata methinks.

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American Basswood, you got it.



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Not to be too anal... Basswood would be T. americana. I'm guessing it is Basswood and not T. cordata (Little leaf Linden)?
Beautiful tree! Where is that?
I was going to guess Fraxinus of some kind...

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Is the new one some kind of Thuja? (putting out the obvious guess!

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[dylanclimbs]

Youse got it Tom...I posted this on another forum and twas guessed first try too! Easy tree I guess. It took me a freakin year to figure it out, the only reason I did is because I saw a labelled one in the Riverview Hospital in Vancouver.

 

[tomthetreeman]

Rob, I figured he was just giving it to me for being close hahaha!

Tell you what? Since I got Dylan's tree (C. decurrens), you can have my turn!!!

-Tom

 

[tomthetreeman]

Yeah, Dylan, I found one last year, and thought it was a Giant Sequoia at first! Looks very similar!

-Tom

 

[RopeShield]

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Linden. T. cordata methinks.

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American Basswood, you got it.



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Not to be too anal... Basswood would be T. americana. I'm guessing it is Basswood and not T. cordata (Little leaf Linden)?
Beautiful tree! Where is that?
I was going to guess Fraxinus of some kind...

NB:
Is the new one some kind of Thuja? (putting out the obvious guess!

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Yep T. americana. T. cordata. I thought that was close enough.
Tree is on Dundas St. east Galt Cambridge across from Gore Mutual.

Next time I'll hold out for specific epithet. Cultivar too?

 

[robinia]

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Next time I'll hold out for specific epithet. Cultivar too?

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Often times, yes.
It's an ID game - might as well be acurate.

Please don't take any offense to the clarification. I'm only asking for my own interest sake.



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Tell you what? Since I got Dylan's tree (C. decurrens), you can have my turn!!!

-Tom



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It's all yours Tom. You're up 2x!