I haven’t found any beans like a coffee tree has .. and yes it has a bad smell !
Yeah...my first reaction was "oak"...but no prominent rays as Oak would have, so ruled that out. That top pic looks about the right color for something in the red oak family...but bark that scaly would be more likely in the white oak family. Of course, not an oak, so moot point! As I scrolled onto the other pictures, that bark is pretty unique.No Kentucky Coffee Tree here in PA so I would have gone with something in the red oak family.
. These are the only leaves that don’t match the other trees nearby .Here are some more he sent me.
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Not sure about the leaves, I told him to check the ground nearby the sump to see what was there...
No Kentucky Coffee Tree here in PA so I would have gone with something in the red oak family.
Yeah see there’s none of them little stems on the ground in this area !Happened to be working next door do a KY Coffeetree today. Here is what the ground looked like. All those little twiggy looking things are the rachises. Didn't see any leaflets around.
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Ok you might be right about that but them rachises I think come from the walnut trees surrounding this tree .... and we have several other trees here in this area that several locals are saying are coffee trees ...???No it isn't.
Wood color looks right for elm (and Kentucky Coffee...as they are similar in color), but bark is wrong and and twigs are way off - would be very fine twigs on an elm tree. There are rachises all over the ground in the bottom right of the last picture of the first post and on the left side of the stump in post #11 (last pick @Marshy posted).
I don't really care/no need for me to argue, I'm just trying to help as I was asked.
If you get a really clean cut of the end grain, you can look at the pattern of the pores. The latewood pores in Ulmus are very distinct in how wavy the pattern is. There may be some tylosis in the early wood of Ulmus, but not Gymnocladus.
https://www.wood-database.com/red-elm/
https://www.wood-database.com/coffeetree/
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