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Title: hackberry tree?
Post by: bubby on March 09, 2011, 06:38:43 pm

My neighbor has a hackberry in his front yard and this year the bark got pretty shaggy, any one know why? Just wondering cause if he takes it out, I get it, Bub

Title: Re: hackberry tree?
Post by: Pat B on March 09, 2011, 06:40:19 pm

I've seen hackberry with corky warts all over it but not shaggy bark.

Title: Re: hackberry tree?pics included
Post by: bubby on March 09, 2011, 07:01:50 pm

here's some pics of it, he said that it's a hackberry but I've no experiance with it, hopfully the pics help (http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt320/bubncheryl/handpad001-4.jpg)
(http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt320/bubncheryl/handpad002-4.jpg)

Title: Re: hackberry tree?
Post by: Bevan R. on March 09, 2011, 07:04:32 pm

Not like any hackberry tree we have here in Nebraska or in Kansas where I cut wood.

Bevan R

Title: Re: hackberry tree?
Post by: toomanyknots on March 09, 2011, 07:51:03 pm

Man if that used to be a hackberry theres something really wrong with it.

Title: Re: hackberry tree?
Post by: crooketarrow on March 09, 2011, 09:38:29 pm

   I agree the knots, the bark here in WV's tight to the tree. It looks like it's differntly something wrong with it to me..

Title: Re: hackberry tree?
Post by: sweeney3 on March 09, 2011, 09:41:28 pm

Man if that is hackberry it must have some trouble.  Doesn't look like any I have seen before.

Title: Re: hackberry tree?
Post by: Arrowind on March 09, 2011, 10:24:46 pm

Are you thinking of cutting the neighbor's tree down?  :D

Title: Re: hackberry tree?
Post by: mullet on March 10, 2011, 12:49:56 am

That looks sick. Does it still have leaves?

Title: Re: hackberry tree?
Post by: Pat B on March 10, 2011, 02:02:35 am

Is that tree alive?  Can you get a pic of the crown?

Title: Re: hackberry tree?
Post by: Pappy on March 10, 2011, 09:37:39 am

Don't look like any Hackberry I have seen dead or alive.  :) Wrong color wrong bark,about everything about it is wrong. ;) ;D   
   Pappy

Title: Re: hackberry tree?
Post by: beetlebailey1977 on March 10, 2011, 10:46:45 am

Nope not a hackberry....looks like a big chinese elm (lacebark elm) Ulnus parvifolia.  But I may be wrong.

Title: Re: hackberry tree?
Post by: ohma on March 10, 2011, 10:53:29 am

agree with others. dont look like hackberry.

Title: Re: hackberry tree?
Post by: Will H on March 10, 2011, 11:05:15 am

I dont think thats hackberry...maybe some type of birch?

Title: Re: hackberry tree?
Post by: Kent D. on March 10, 2011, 12:21:36 pm

Doesnt look like the hackberry I cut here in Texas.  But that is one messed up tree.