Trees from a distance

[theXman]

black locust (robinia pseudoacacia)

 

[easyphloem]

Quercus rubra?



SZ

 

[Waldo]

nice job X! correct ID of the Robinia psuedoacacia

 

[Waldo]

all these are the black locust pictured...

 

[Waldo]

Last one, this is one of the largest black locusts i have ever come across, it is about 60' tall

 

[JeffL]

Really? They get 100'+ out here. That's a big weed tree!

 

[tomthetreeman]

I saw something like a pod that looked a little longer in the first phot, that's why I went with Catalpa... Hey, I was in the right family LOL!

Jeff is right, they get really tall around here, then they fail, usually leaving giant, stringy hangers, hung way the heck up in rotted out, unsafe stems. Other than the fragrant flowers and the fact that they are good nitrogen rechargers, I am not a big fan.

-Tom

 

[banjo]

They have very rot resistant timber and it makes great firewood. I think they are an attractive tree as well.

Game on.

 

[Waldo]

i've got something kind of interesting to put up. i dont know the species tho... but what do you make of it?

 

[easyphloem]

If I stare long enough into that image, it feels like it is pulling me into the screen.




Or maybe I have vertigo. Another problem all together.



Listen to me with all of this personal crap.. No one wants to hear this.

My guess (and it's a bad one): Tupelo



SZ

 

[tomthetreeman]

Linden?

(Banjo, you are so full of $#!t!)

-Tom

 

[tomthetreeman]

I change my guess to cottonwood.

 

[jomoco]

Magnolia?

jomoco

 

[Waldo]

what cottonwood? dont most cottonwoods have serrate edges and more of a cordate leaf shape?

 

[Waldo]

X post anytime, i dont want to hijack your turn with a wild goose chase.

 

[theXman]

here's a tree picture for hijacking my turn:

 

[theXman]

oh, wait a minute...

oh, here is the real tree picture.

might be easy, but interesting.

it's the tree laying down, but growing up as well. the one that takes up most of the picture.

 

[Waldo]

sycamore...

 

[theXman]

You rock Waldo you got it!

now, seeing how things go around here, what is this tree?

I have no idea what it is.

it's a small ornamental and the caretaker didn't know what it was either.

 

[theXman]