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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: bentstick54 on June 25, 2023, 06:41:19 pm

Title: Help with tree ID
Post by: bentstick54 on June 25, 2023, 06:41:19 pm

Would like opinions on tree ID. SC Kansas, end of June. No visible mast that I could see. Approximately 6-8” diameter, straight trunks. All leaf clusters look the same.

Title: Re: Help with tree ID
Post by: bentstick54 on June 25, 2023, 06:41:58 pm

Closer picture of bark.

Title: Re: Help with tree ID
Post by: Bob Barnes on June 25, 2023, 07:33:39 pm

It looks like bitternut hickory.

Title: Re: Help with tree ID
Post by: Pat B on June 25, 2023, 11:05:33 pm

I was thinking a hickory also but I'm not familiar with that variety.

Title: Re: Help with tree ID
Post by: Aksel on June 26, 2023, 04:29:50 am

walnut?

Title: Re: Help with tree ID
Post by: superdav95 on June 26, 2023, 08:26:08 am

Quote from: Bob Barnes on June 25, 2023, 07:33:39 pm

It looks like bitternut hickory.

+1 for butternut

Title: Re: Help with tree ID
Post by: Pat B on June 26, 2023, 08:43:13 am

Bitternut hickory and butternut are 2 different trees. Butternut is genus Juglans and hickory is genus Carya. They are in the same family but different genera.

Title: Re: Help with tree ID
Post by: bentstick54 on June 26, 2023, 09:07:52 am

I considered walnut because there is a lot in the state, but the leaf pattern on the stem is different. Walnut leaves are staggered on the stem, where they’re directly opposite on the tree in question? Here is a picture of some walnut leaves.

Title: Re: Help with tree ID
Post by: Pat B on June 26, 2023, 09:49:31 am

Looking through the Audubon tree guide for the Eastern US, it looks like a pumpkin ash., looking at the leaf and bark. Also, all of the trees with pinnate compound leaves, the leaflets are opposite. The only one with alternate leaflets is yellow wood(Cladrastis kentukea). BTW...these are pinnate compound leaves, the whole structure is a leaf , stem and all with leaflets.

Title: Re: Help with tree ID
Post by: bentstick54 on June 26, 2023, 11:32:16 am

Thanks Pat. I’m definitely not a tree guy, but trying to figure out if these are selfbow candidates.

Title: Re: Help with tree ID
Post by: Bob Barnes on June 26, 2023, 12:16:37 pm

Bitternut hickory leaves look like that...but like all trees, you have to be careful using the lower 'shade' leaves for Identification.  They tend to be larger than the 'normal' leaves on a tree.

Title: Re: Help with tree ID
Post by: Lechat on June 29, 2023, 06:14:37 pm

Bark could be Pignut hickory or Ash. Leaves have me leaning towards Ash.
 Either way, looks like a good straight, clean candidate for the sawhoss

Title: Re: Help with tree ID
Post by: superdav95 on June 29, 2023, 06:18:28 pm

Quote from: Pat B on June 26, 2023, 08:43:13 am

Bitternut hickory and butternut are 2 different trees. Butternut is genus Juglans and hickory is genus Carya. They are in the same family but different genera.

Dang auto correct.  I did mean to say bitternut.  Thanks Pat. 

Title: Re: Help with tree ID
Post by: Kidder on July 02, 2023, 02:57:32 am

I plugged both pictures into my tree identifier app and they both came back as “Green Ash.”

Title: Re: Help with tree ID
Post by: bentstick54 on July 02, 2023, 09:26:58 am

Thanks everyone. If I should cut one, would there be any helpful tips to help verify the type?  Color wood, grain, smell etc.

Title: Re: Help with tree ID
Post by: Pat B on July 02, 2023, 12:38:07 pm

If it is green ash I've heard that green ash is the least desirable of the ashes. I've only worked ash one or two times over the years so I'm definitely no expert. I'd like to hear other's opinions of green ash.

Title: Re: Help with tree ID
Post by: bentstick54 on July 02, 2023, 02:45:10 pm

Me too for sure.