Can you identify this seedling?

[Fred Arnold]

I planted some osage seeds early spring after stratifying them in the fridge over the winter. Here's a pic of some of the osage and an unknown healthy culprit in the background. The leaves don't resemble anything in close vicinity to where I started the plants outdoors. Can anyone tell from the pics what it is?

 I have determined that it isn't black walnut, elm, mulberry, and don't believe it to be hackberry. I do have some ash on the property but not an abundance.  All of the seeds looked the same so I'm almost positive it's something that flew in and settled with the container of the osage seedlings.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Cottonwood

[Stoker]

Cottonwood

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Leroy

[Fred Arnold]

Well hell, maybe I'll find a use for cottonwood. I've got a monster down by the creek that has a branch bigger than most of the trees on the property and surprised there isn't more of it out here.

[PEARL DRUMS]

That pic doesn't look so much like cottonwood. Looks like red oak.

[autologus]

Definitely ain't Red Oak.

Grady

[bubbles]

The picture of the seedling looks to be cottonwood or a poplar of some kind - the picture of the full tree doesn't look like cottonwood - I'd be inclined to agree with Pearl drums on the red oak, but I'd need to see a close up of the buds

[wildman]

Cottonwood lots of them along river here

[mullet]

I saw two Osage, I thought?

[Poggins]

The seedling is cottonwood and the tree is cottonwood ( twisted and deformed from years of wind and weather).
I bet you find a lot of morels under it.

[JW_Halverson]

I grew up where cottonwood is nearly the only tree to be found and I got no morels.


Your seedling is definitely cottonwood. 

[Fred Arnold]

Lots of cottonwood down on the river and shrooms but not many cottonwoods on the creek up here and never have found a morel.

[Poggins]

Lots of cottonwood here in Oklahoma and just one if the trees I look for when mushrooms are out .

[Dalton Knapper]

I feel like rambling....

Cottonwood was historically used in mines for support beams. The reason being that when cottonwood is stressed it makes rather loud popping noises before it breaks. That would give the miners at least some warning when timbers were about to give way.

Another interesting cottonwood story involves the second Battle of Adobe Walls (June, 1874) where some 700 Comanche and Kiowas led by Quanah Parker and others lead an early morning attack on about 28 or so Buffalo hunters in the Texas Panhandle. What saved the buffalo hunters was a cottonwood support beam cracking and waking up everyone - that and the hunters were armed with Sharps 50 cals - it's a long story and one worth reading about.

Hollow cottonwood logs were used by American Indians to make drums, masks, Kachinas and other carved items - it carves well and is still being used today.

So, that's what I have to say about cottonwood.

[smoky#1]

Cottonwood

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