Winter Bud ID

[Symbioun]

You got it Robinia! You're up. I can't believe how much fun this is. It combines all of my interests. Photography, trees and trivia.

 

[robinia]

Here's some nice fresh bud!

 

[tomthetreeman]

Is this a trick? Is it the occasional single S. reticulata bud?

-Tom

 

[robinia]

No trick, just the terminal.

No Syringa

 

[tomthetreeman]

I am so much better at trees FROM A DISTANCE.

 

[RopeShield]

Aesculus glabra

 

[robinia]

No Aesculus

 

[Symbioun]

I'm stumped. I originally thought it might have been Syringa vulgaris. I know I've seen that bud before, but really can't place it at the moment. I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's a variety of Euonymus.

 

[robinia]

No Euonymus.

It is opposite, not native and resembles another unrelated tree.

 

[Jerry_Grandjean]

Hope you don't mind a new player jumpin' in, but it looks kinda Acer platanoides-ish to me. That would fit the non-native, and looking at the leaves it is similar to a sugar maple. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

 

[robinia]

Really close, but it's more the bark that resembles another.

 

[Symbioun]

Are we looking at a Sycamore Maple (Acer pseudoplatanus). I can't recall ever seeing one, but I'm guessing the bark resembles a Sycamore?

 

[robinia]

That's the one! Bingo.

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Hope you don't mind a new player jumpin' in

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Not at all. Welcome to Treebuzz Jerry.

 

[Symbioun]

I totally forgot that I was up on this tread. I have a twig that should be an easy walk in the park.

 

[treeyeti]

Acer negundo

 

[tomthetreeman]

yup

 

[Symbioun]

I talked to Treeyeti and he's passing on uploading a pic. So if anybody has a twig/bud they want to upload feel free. The floor is open.

 

[RopeShield]

Here you go!

 

[tomthetreeman]

Is that Cornus controversa?

 

[RopeShield]

Sorry no Cornus