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Title: another tree ID
Post by: timmyd on May 01, 2018, 04:09:59 pm

came upon this tree and i think its hop hornbeam?

Title: Re: another tree ID
Post by: PatM on May 01, 2018, 04:12:54 pm

Yes.

Title: Re: another tree ID
Post by: timmyd on May 01, 2018, 07:52:18 pm

For those who have experience with this....do you treat it like hickory i.e. Cut in spring when sap is flowing and peel off the bark?

Title: Re: another tree ID
Post by: upstatenybowyer on May 01, 2018, 07:57:02 pm

Yup.

And that looks like a really nice HHB tree!  )W(

Title: Re: another tree ID
Post by: timmyd on May 01, 2018, 08:03:37 pm

Yeah there 2 in this grove and both look really good. I've never worked with this wood before so we shall see what happens. Thanks for the info

Title: Re: another tree ID
Post by: PatM on May 01, 2018, 08:12:13 pm

Look closer, there may be more.   It isn't always so shaggy.

Title: Re: another tree ID
Post by: Dances with squirrels on May 02, 2018, 04:41:35 am

Yeah, it does look a bit too shaggy for HHB. I was thinking it could be an adolescent hickory. Down low it looks like a HHB, at the top of the pic it's looking like a hickory. Lol. A good look at the configuration of its branches should help discern between the two because they look very different. If you can, take a picture standing right next to the trunk an looking straight up, and then stand back a ways and take a pic of the whole tree.

What's it's diameter?

It's tough to i.d. them in pics sometimes, where if we were all standing there with you, it would be  piece of cake.

Title: Re: another tree ID
Post by: PatM on May 02, 2018, 05:33:28 am

A lot of our HHB has very shaggy bark.  We only have Bitternut Hickory in my neck of the woods so it's  not likely to mistake it for anything else.