Tree ID

[unclemoustache]

Here's an interesting tree I took down yesterday. Any clues? Very light wood. No smell that I noticed.

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[RVALUE]

Here's an interesting tree I took down yesterday. Any clues? Very light wood. No smell that I noticed.

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mulberry?

 

[unclemoustache]

Nah, mulberry is a dark yellow when freshly cut, and very heavy. This stuff was almost white and very light. Bark looks like some kind of birch, but the wood is so light I'd lean toward balsa, but I don't know that it can even grow here.

 

[RVALUE]

paulownia?

 

[climberjones]

Willllowww!

 

[darkbyrd]

paulownia?

Just what I was thinking. Big leaves?

Empress trees will have fat growth rings. Grow more like a weed than a tree. That could be a 3 year old, easily, and 20' high.

 

[sleprac]

Looks a bit like ailanthus- ghetto palm/tree of heaven. Did it have leaves kinda like sumac?

 

[Toddppm]

Maybe Mimosa?

 

[unclemoustache]

No leaves to be found. Here's a couple closer-ups:

With those funny stripes, I thought it might be some kind of tiger wood, but every time I Googled that, I only got some black guy....



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[Uncle John]

If I remember correctly the Tree of Heaven smells very bad. If i'm not mistaken its what we called Stink Tree.

 

[Constrictor]

Basswood.

 

[TreeGuyHR]

The last shot shows that it was growing extremely fast -- so I would vote for a Populus (poplar family -- willow, aspen, cottonwood). OTH, Catalpa, Ailanthus, and tulip poplar are possibilities. All of these trees grow very fast if they are sprouts from old root stocks (Stumps or large roots). Was this the case? There may be a tree near by that is the same species.

The specks on the barks are lenticels that are often seen on certain trees and can help to ID the tree. These function in gas exchange.

Give us more picks!

Buds?

Leaves?

Smell of the wood?

Heavy or light? Soft (can dent with a thumbnail) or relatively hard (can't)

You can always find some dried leaves nearby. There are keys to "Trees in Winter" that focus on the buds and twigs.

 

[BrokenToys]

If I remember correctly the Tree of Heaven smells very bad. If i'm not mistaken its what we called Stink Tree.

Yup...that's what we call it here too ... Stink Tree. Besides it popping up everywhere-when you cut it down it smells like rotten moldy cardboard.

 

[Morgan in AR]

looks like silk tree, aka mimosa.

 

[billintx]

Looks like mimosa to me.

 

[unclemoustache]

Here are three more pics of the same tree (I'm pretty sure). The young tree looks like the funny ones in my original posting, but I encountered another tree today with a young tree growing out of an older tree. Perhaps these are the same trees.

Ignore the leaves - that's a vine.

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[tld400]

Looks like a momosa tree that I have in my front yard. But im not a tree expert.