Trees from a distance

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and what about X or Robinia?

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...or... Jeff...or...Will.....or......?
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X made use of the detailed hints and got it so the colder-country folks were spared further wild guesses. Like many trees the bark is smooth when young then roughens. This one used to be M toosendan--different leaf color with no blue in it, flowers come out earlier, and most importantly the branch angles are much better and the form is quite stable.

I've been tending it for 20+ years; never damaged by storms.
I can post another unless someone else is itching to.
 
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Guy - How invasive is that species relative to A. julibrissin, Chinese privet, et al?

[/ QUOTE ]Not even close; the chinaberries do not travel far, and few have germinated here in the 8+ years i have had them fruiting here. a few volunteers under that mature specimen, some years more than others but never a lot. compared to kohlreuteria and U parvifolia they are meek.

here's one i just saw today. the owner of 28 years says it has stopped growing so this is the mature size. just finished flowering, leaves are very soft to the touch. no fruit that he remembers ever noticing. no fall color.

ID ing it is not part of my assignment; i was there to appraise liriodendron etc condemned to utility work, but i'd still like to knwo what it is. Whaddya think?

hmm i keep getting an "apache" error msg...
 
Nyssa was my first guess based on bark and size, but owner told me it has not gotten bigger in 10 years, and Nyssa gets 80' here given the chance.

i asked if the fruit was a bluish pea he said no; never noticed it. it is forming now; like a very tiny drupe (?)
flower was to small to notice; i think i saw tiny white p[etals

Plus the twigs are not at all zigzaggy

Plus the leaves come out in bunches almost like whorls and are pale green and very soft

Plus there is no fall color; almost green to brown he said.

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Halesia monticola???

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hm good guess but halesia is strongly alternate while this is kinda whorled; petioles all bunched at one point on the twigs.

it is way < 3000' here too, plus flower not showy plus bark is not boring like this.

cucmbertree has smooth gray bark
 
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cucmbertree has smooth gray bark

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Only when young. Your bark picture reminded me of mature cucumber tree when i saw them years ago.

Now that you said I was wrong, i looked it up. All the pictures i find on the net sure look rough and similar to your bark picture. similar. I don't think I was way off.

see link to website on cucumber magnolia.

http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Magnolia+acuminata

If you gave other hints i didnt' read them, i just saw the bark and it reminded me of cucumber tree...

yours:
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cucumber tree bark:
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