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Offline timmyd

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another tree ID
« on: May 01, 2018, 04:09:59 pm »
came upon this tree and i think its hop hornbeam?
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Offline PatM

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Re: another tree ID
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2018, 04:12:54 pm »
Yes.
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Offline timmyd

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Re: another tree ID
« Reply #2 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?
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Offline upstatenybowyer

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Re: another tree ID
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2018, 07:57:02 pm »
Yup.

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

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Re: another tree ID
« Reply #4 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
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Offline PatM

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Re: another tree ID
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2018, 08:12:13 pm »
Look closer, there may be more.   It isn't always so shaggy.
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Offline Dances with squirrels

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Re: another tree ID
« Reply #6 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.
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Offline PatM

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Re: another tree ID
« Reply #7 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.
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