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Offline IdahoMatt

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Tree ID please
« on: February 13, 2014, 08:59:43 pm »
This is t tree that I have driven by a thousand times and finally got some pics.  It gets small black berries in the summer.  Sorry no pics of live foliage.  Thanks.

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Offline Hrothgar

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Re: Tree ID please
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2014, 09:02:48 pm »
Russian olive ?
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Offline IdahoMatt

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« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2014, 09:08:43 pm »
No Russian olives have a red bark with small leaves like a honey locust. They also have a greanish fruit.  We have a ton of Russian olive here.

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« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2014, 09:14:35 pm »
Hawthorn?

Offline IdahoMatt

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« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2014, 09:16:25 pm »
No thorns :(

Offline wapiti1997

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« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2014, 09:33:45 pm »
Looks like a hawthorn to me, crataegus, they can have reddish to black berries and will have spurs or thorns on the branches.

Offline IdahoMatt

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Re: Tree ID please
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2014, 09:46:56 pm »
The leaves don't seem to match the hawthorn.  I am looking in my western trees book and the only thing that looks like the leaves are some sort of cherry.  The leaves are only about 1 to 2 inches long.  I'm totally stumped.

Offline Scallorn

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« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2014, 09:50:34 pm »
Fruitless pear. I have three in my yard

Offline Pat B

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« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2014, 10:14:32 pm »
Serviceberry
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Offline Gaust

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« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2014, 10:19:46 pm »
Buckthorn? 

Offline TRACY

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« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2014, 10:27:02 pm »
Looks like a hawthorn to me, crataegus, they can have reddish to black berries and will have spurs or thorns on the branches.

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Offline PatM

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« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2014, 10:49:09 pm »
Hawthorn has thorns, often to a spectacular degree. The fruit is also like a tiny apple.
 Remember most of our domestic fruit trees arose from wild forebears  with thorns.  Not surprising since they are in the rose family.
 It's not going to be a fruitless pear with black berries....

Offline IdahoMatt

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« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2014, 10:50:40 pm »
There are quite a few of these trees around where I live.  Only around the road not In the wild.  This was the biggest one I have seen. 

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« Reply #13 on: February 13, 2014, 11:48:19 pm »
Can you get pics of the branch tips and a close up of the terminal bud?
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Offline IdahoMatt

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Re: Tree ID please
« Reply #14 on: February 13, 2014, 11:54:04 pm »
Yes pat I'll try to get some tomorrow on my way to work.  The strange thing is I don't remember any flowers on these trees.