Trees from a distance

[pigwot]

This may be an easy one, but I'll have to get some more pics soon...

 

[willbranch]

Looks like a dead White Pine to me haha

 

[pigwot]

Almost entirely dead. A whole row of them succumbing...

...you're up!

 

[pigwot]

No one going? Here is one from near our son's place.

 

[Treezybreez]

Olea europaea on steroids?

 

[tomthetreeman]

Picea pungens?

 

[pigwot]

Not Olea or Picea

 

[tomthetreeman]

Doug fir?

 

[pigwot]

Not Pseudotsuga menziesii

- actually this is a fair representation of its mature form with a thick columnar trunk and tiny spiky branches. This one is near our son in Tucson, Arizona. A neighbors son is in Phoenix and he sold one a bit larger than this to a nursery for $5000! They are prized for xeriscaping and some hotel down there paid the $5k and then paid the nursery to move it... I am in the wrong area...

 

[pigwot]

Here is another of the same species...

 

[tomthetreeman]

I got nothin.

 

[pigwot]

Sometimes called a Boojum Tree [After the boojum, an imaginary character in the poem The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll.]

Also known as Candlewood in Mexico and southwestern California, it is a deciduous tree (Idria columnaris) native to Baja California and having a thick tapering columnar trunk, slender spiny branches, and yellow flowers.

 

[tomthetreeman]

Very cool. I like the story of the name. Here's something to keep things rolling:

 

[pigwot]

Katsura?

 

[Treezybreez]

Is it Gymnocladus dioicus?

 

[tomthetreeman]

Neither of those, but one guess is a little closer than the other.

 

[pigwot]

Closer to Fabaceae? Gleditsia triacanthos... maybe a young, very full specimen?

 

[tomthetreeman]

Yes Fabaceae, and no, not Gt.

 

[pigwot]

Amur maackia

 

[tomthetreeman]

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Amur maackia

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I almost thought it was that at first, but it's not. Very similar looking leaves.

-Tom