My Random Tree Logs

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Elm Hunt

On my hunt for American Elms to use in my film I found these, amazing trees.

This is my great uncles house before he died and it was sold, he had a great American Elm over the garage:

When I was probably 5 I remember planting a tree with my great uncle and checking up on it all the time to bury cutworms at its base for some reason. And it dawned upon me to check out the tree while I was there and sure enough I planted an American Elm on the side of the road with my great uncle over 15 years ago. My father said he brought it back from Connecticut so maybe it's a hybrid of some sort:

This is a nice twin trunk Elm along the same road:

 

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Big Elm

On the same road as the previous post (minus the first tree) this one also stands. Have not seen this many large Elms this close to each other in any of my surrounding towns at least yet. This one is huge much larger DBH single trunk and perfect canopy just a little thin.

There is even some new shooters at breast height I was thinking about cloning it for its size, shape and obvious disease tolerance:

 

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Gardner MA Elm Street

Sadly this is the only original elm on Gardner's Elm Street:

Directly across the street there is a small elm that who knows maybe it was taken from/as a sucker from the only remaining elm? (working on it)

There IS two more, both in the same persons yard a handful of houses up. But they look funny, they appear to be old enough to be planted around the 60's or 70's which is when the street lost all it's elms. So maybe they are "disease tolerant" cultivars? Maybe even two different types because they look completely different but both odd:

 

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Big Ol' Mother Maple

This is a pretty big maple of some sort in Westminster's center of town:

 

[banshee67]

that maple looks like its seen better days

 

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Another One Bites The Dust!

This kinda sucks, this was a huge tree around the corner from my street I live on. This was some sort of silver maple, many street trees have blue X's I even saw a few with red (not sure if they mean different things) but this tree was unmarked, I don't know what the motive was. ALB? Who knows, there was a large decay hole at the buttress from what might have been a limb long ago but like I said no X.

 

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I spotted this along the railroad and I walked over 5 miles and this is THE only one I saw. It's an odd Pine of some sort, kind of soft and fluffy looking. Any idea what it is?

I think that there is a Tamarack (Larix laricina) go back and visit it during the autumn colors. It will change colors and lose its needles.

 

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I think that there is a Tamarack (Larix laricina) go back and visit it during the autumn colors. It will change colors and lose its needles.

REALLY!? The only pine that looses it's needles interesting. I have seen just a few of these full grown, not many that's for sure.

 

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This is some sort of mutant pine tree or something, it's lower branches literally grow down and across the ground like vines??

 

[banshee67]

This is some sort of mutant pine tree or something, it's lower branches literally grow down and across the ground like vines??

looks like a nice place for deer to bed down

 

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^ it's near a sand pit so I bet they do. Saw a bunch of turkeys on this walk

 

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I stumbled upon two large oaks behind an old elementary school, with a pipe grafted into both of them. Almost too low for swings and too high for a chin up bar haha I have no idea how or why someone would do this!

 

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I cut a bunch of Ash down, why does it bleed like this?

 

[mimilkman1]

I have only seen box elder look like that.

 

[Doc Hickory]

Can anyone identify these two trees for me? I'm confused.

It's really tall and the crotch doesn't split at all until the canopy line, not a single lower branch under that crotch. This led me to believe it was an elm but this is in the middle of the NH forest plus the bark is definitely not elm. Maybe a black hickory, bark looks right along with crotch height. What the heck is it?

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Then there is this thing across the street from my uncles house, is it a maple because the bark kinda does look like elm but the canopy seems too full too low to be an elm. Why is it all black and dried out is it dying or is this a disease/fungi?
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The first tree looks like a white oak to me based on bark and bark coloration as well as the shape and size of the tree. Second tree is a maple, and lots of large maples have that dark thing going on, looks almost like they've had their bark charred by fire.

 

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Sucker Stopper is a chemical that you can use to
stop the growth of the suckers....

We already used CST on the cambium layer, it's not coming back.

 

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Untouched Beech in the woods by a sand dune, low branches and a twisted pair of what appears to be suckers...if you look by the top you can see one of the suckers is grafted to a tree branch:

Another graft up higher between a branch and the sucker, will make for a neat tree someday when all mature like the roots of a mature ficus:

 

[Toddppm]

I stumbled upon two large oaks behind an old elementary school, with a pipe grafted into both of them. Almost too low for swings and too high for a chin up bar haha I have no idea how or why someone would do this!

Looks like where the old chain link fence used to be. What're you doing creeping around the woods by the elem. School? :msp_confused: