Help identifying this dead tree

[Junkyard_sal]

There are some standing dead trees near my house on county/city land that I can drop myself or get the city to drop.

One is a not fully dead locust

I don't know what the other one is:

This leaf is near the second tree

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[TimberWolf530]

Looks like it may be a Red Maple, except it isn't red.

 

[lone wolf]

Looks like it may be a Red Maple, except it isn't red.

Sugar?

 

[Junkyard_sal]

In Maryland? Red maple is not great firewood but sugar maple is good wood. I hate dropping it, bucking it, taking space in my rack for substandard wood


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[abbott295]

Maryland, you say? Always helps to have a location. The bark looks like it could be a maple, but that leaf looks like it could be sycamore. If the tree is dead, there may not be any leaves from it. What about twigs, branches? Showing any opposite branching? If not, it won't be a maple.

At certain stages, some oaks or hickories and others can look kind of like that. Also, what are the chances, being city/county land, that something non-native could have been planted there?

 

[lone wolf]

Maryland, you say? Always helps to have a location. The bark looks like it could be a maple, but that leaf looks like it could be sycamore. If the tree is dead, there may not be any leaves from it. What about twigs, branches? Showing any opposite branching? If not, it won't be a maple.

At certain stages, some oaks or hickories and others can look kind of like that. Also, what are the chances, being city/county land, that something non-native could have been planted there?

The bark dont look like Sycamore I say Sugar Maple check it out.
http://www.mntca.org/acer-saccharum-sugar-maple-id-card/

 

[Junkyard_sal]

I was hoping for shag bark hickory but the leaf is wrong


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[TimberWolf530]

It's definitely not a shagbark. Both the leaf shape and bark look like some kind of maple though. Even if it's soft maple, it still burns good. Similar to Elm or Cherry. My first cord this year was silver maple, and I have another cord of it drying for next year. If I could get it for free, I'd definitely take it.

 

[Junkyard_sal]

Well plan to take the locust first. And I know if some red oak. Then I can deal with this tree


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[KenJax Tree]

Sugar?

That would be correct

 

[lone wolf]

That would be correct

It sure looks like it to me.

 

[066blaster]

To quote some others on here, " it will burn better than a snowball" it looks like sugar maple to me. I cut a big one down fall of 2014. Haven't burned it yet but it seems best to split it right away after cutting. It loses quality fast if sitting in big round form.

 

[abbott295]

I seem to need to clarify what I was saying.

"The leaf looks like it could be (from a) sycamore. If the tree is dead, there may not be any leaves from it (around)."

I was not suggesting the tree could be sycamore.

Opposite branching would rule in or out some possibilities.

 

[blacklocst]

Definitely not Sugar Maple, leaf doesn't look right.

 

[lone wolf]

Definitely not Sugar Maple, leaf doesn't look right.

The bark does maybe the leaf isnt from that tree

 

[blacklocst]

The bark does maybe the leaf isnt from that tree

Even the bark looks wrong for Sugar Maple, some kind of soft Maple maybe.

 

[KenJax Tree]

Its hard to tell with the leaf with it all dry and wilted up but pretty sure its sugar maple. Also looks like silver maple. But that leaf could've come from anywhere.

 

[lone wolf]

Its hard to tell with the leaf with it all dry and wilted up but pretty sure its sugar maple. Also looks like silver maple. But that leaf could've come from anywhere.

Silver is a possibility

 

[duckman]

that sycamore leaf, is not from that silver maple tree

 

[svk]

I don't see that being maple of any kind by the bark. Also I see multiple leaf species on the ground blurred begind the close up.