Tree ID Help Needed...

**dixiedeerslaya** · 03-13-2012, 12:25 PM

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**SOUTHERN WOODS** · 03-13-2012, 12:27 PM

gum

**thunderchicken** · 03-13-2012, 12:41 PM

Upon closer inspection........that beez a gum tree.

**Calibogue** · 03-13-2012, 01:22 PM

For all you dummies that think you know trees, it's most certainly not a sweetgum or blackgum for that matter! Based on the limited knowledge of the site it is either an ash, hickory or yellow poplar but I would bet every dollar in my pocket its an ash.

**Calibogue** · 03-13-2012, 01:23 PM

Nix the poplar too..... Hickory or ash.

**dixiedeerslaya** · 03-13-2012, 01:25 PM

this dummy wants to hear your reasoning behind that answer.

**jws** · 03-13-2012, 01:27 PM

I see a gum leaf in the picture

**Calibogue** · 03-13-2012, 01:29 PM

It's the woods, there are lots of leaves on the ground. The bark pattern alone narrows it down to my two selections. The only place I have seen blackgum bark with similar patterns is in the sandhills and it does all kinda stuff!

**dixiedeerslaya** · 03-13-2012, 01:31 PM

what specifically makes the bark not look like sweet gum?

**XHailGC** · 03-13-2012, 01:33 PM

So, these two aren't the same?

**Calibogue** · 03-13-2012, 01:33 PM

Everything..... It's not a sweetgum boss!

**dixiedeerslaya** · 03-13-2012, 01:36 PM

im not a tree expert by ANY means, but im gonna hold to my guess as a sweet gum... damn thing looks just like every sweet gum i have ever seen... and looks nothing like a hickory ive ever seen.

i wish woodie could split that piece with an axe... that would show us for sure.

**dixiedeerslaya** · 03-13-2012, 01:37 PM

cali do you agree with the identity of the pics i posted of the gum and hickory?

**Calibogue** · 03-13-2012, 01:37 PM

The long streaks and broken pattern and the bark rises to a ridge..... The bottom pic looks more like yellow poplar.

**Calibogue** · 03-13-2012, 01:40 PM

Your first and third appear to be hickory..... The second sweetgum and can't tell about pic four..... The lichens on the bark obscure those closeups

**dixiedeerslaya** · 03-13-2012, 01:46 PM

no sir, first and third are sweet gum. second and fourth are hickory... fact. these are orangeburg county trees. shit must grow different in beaufort. these "specimans" are sitting in my yard.