Trees from a distance

[Derrek]

I'll keep it rolling.

 

[TreeLogic]

i love sassafras tea. my wife's grandfather found one that he could mill into lumber one time. it was a beautiful wood. i don't have anything good to post, so someone else can post. i'll jump in when i have a good one.

is the tea made with the leaves or the root? pretty sure it has been discovered that the root has carcinogens...and root beer is no longer made from it. might want to stay away from the tea. the leaves are still used as File for gumbo.


Derrek, form looks like Taxodium distichum so that's my guess. Probably wrong but I'll assume the legumes are a vine growing in the tree...

 

[Derrek]

It is not Taxodium, but it does have a similar form most of the time. There is not any vine in there, it's all tree.

 

[tomthetreeman]

Metasequoia? It looks awfully grey and stunted, but the catkin-thingies look right.

 

[Derrek]

Not a Metasequoia. If it helps those are catkins.

 

[tomthetreeman]

Ostrya virginiana.

 

[TreeLogic]

Corylus colurna

 

[Derrek]

TreeLogic is correct. I like the cool nut clusters, look like alien brains.

 

[TreeLogic]

Here ya go...

 

[jerseygirl]

sycamore

 

[TreeLogic]

no ma'am, but good guess.

 

[Treezybreez]

A supper tall Albizia julibrissin?

 

[TreeLogic]

no sir, not a mimosa, but another good guess. how's that little fella doin? good i hope.

 

[tomthetreeman]

If I had an idea what all of that stuff is in the canopy, I could make a guess. As it is, I'm stumped.

 

[TreeLogic]

That would be spanish moss

 

[CreTree]

I got a call from a friend in S Carolina with an identify ques. This is not from my area so I am having some trouble. River Birch?

 

[tomthetreeman]

Cre, that's a river birch. TL, yours is a fool's errand, not even worthy of TFAD.

 

[TreeLogic]

Then you put something up Tom, since you're obviously the moderator. Can you see the bark of that tree? The form? The branch structure?

Maybe try a screen bigger than your smartphone.

 

[oldoakman]

It might be a bit easier to id if the sun wasn't behind it in your shot. if i had to guess based on what i can see, i would say a euc, but it would be a long way from home in costal carolina.

 

[TreeLogic]

Hackberry...its all yours... whoever wants it