Help ID this tree from its leaves?
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BigDave
JudyB
JimLewis
EpicusMaximus
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Re: Help ID this tree from its leaves?
Growing in the wild or in a yard or park? How large are the leaves?
JimLewis- Member
Re: Help ID this tree from its leaves?
JudyB wrote:At first glance I'd say ash.
Yeah Judy, or dogwood
BigDave- Member
Re: Help ID this tree from its leaves?
Definitely NOT ash. Ash has a compound leaf (technicality) with opposing leaflets. These leafs/leaflets alternate.
How about Pawpaw? If so, leaves ought to be big (upto 10 inches long).
How about Pawpaw? If so, leaves ought to be big (upto 10 inches long).
0soyoung- Member
Tree ID?
How tall is the tree? I recently found a small understory tree with a similar leaf shape and structure. When the leaves were rubbed they gave off a strong and rather nice scent. A friend identified it as a spicebush.
Robert Taylor- Member
Re: Help ID this tree from its leaves?
Tree was growing in the wild. The leaves are about 1.5 to 2 inches in size.
The bark was smooth but has white spots on it. This tree was growing amongst a family of birch. I actually cut it down to a stump and it's in a grow box now. I took it because it was going to be chopped down.
I've been searching online and the closest match I've found so far is glossy buckthorn...
http://ontariotrees.com/main/species.php?id=2023
The bark was smooth but has white spots on it. This tree was growing amongst a family of birch. I actually cut it down to a stump and it's in a grow box now. I took it because it was going to be chopped down.
I've been searching online and the closest match I've found so far is glossy buckthorn...
http://ontariotrees.com/main/species.php?id=2023
EpicusMaximus- Member
More on spicebush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindera_benzoin
Lindera benzoin (wild allspice,[citation needed] spicebush,[1] common spicebush,[2] northern spicebush[3] or Benjamin bush[1]) is a flowering plant in the family Lauraceae, native to eastern North America, ranging from Maine to Ontario in the north, and to Kansas, Texas and northern Florida in the south.
The spice bush, also called Wild Allspice and Fever Bush, is scattered throughout the eastern United States. It seems to prefer damp woodlands or thickets in swampy ground, and sometimes reaches a height of 15 feet. This and another American species, the Downy Fever Bush which extends as far north as southern Illinois, are members of the Laurel Family that includes such aromatic trees and shrubs as sassafras, cinnamon, camphor, bay, avocado, and the true laurel. During the Civil War, soldiers brewed tea from the leathery leaves and the greenish rubbery twigs of the Benjamin bush. Oil of benzoin, or "benjamin", was extracted from it for home remedies but most commercial benzoin is now made from plants such as the sweet gum tree, a relative of the witch hazel. Long ago, woodsmen learned that spice bush is one of the few hardwoods which burn readily when green. The little flowers lack petals but each has six lemon yellow sepals and they are clumped in clusters which, with the fruit, make it an ornamental shrub. The fruit, which ripens in autumn and clings on through winter, is a bright red oval berry, rich in oil and highly scented.
Lindera benzoin (wild allspice,[citation needed] spicebush,[1] common spicebush,[2] northern spicebush[3] or Benjamin bush[1]) is a flowering plant in the family Lauraceae, native to eastern North America, ranging from Maine to Ontario in the north, and to Kansas, Texas and northern Florida in the south.
The spice bush, also called Wild Allspice and Fever Bush, is scattered throughout the eastern United States. It seems to prefer damp woodlands or thickets in swampy ground, and sometimes reaches a height of 15 feet. This and another American species, the Downy Fever Bush which extends as far north as southern Illinois, are members of the Laurel Family that includes such aromatic trees and shrubs as sassafras, cinnamon, camphor, bay, avocado, and the true laurel. During the Civil War, soldiers brewed tea from the leathery leaves and the greenish rubbery twigs of the Benjamin bush. Oil of benzoin, or "benjamin", was extracted from it for home remedies but most commercial benzoin is now made from plants such as the sweet gum tree, a relative of the witch hazel. Long ago, woodsmen learned that spice bush is one of the few hardwoods which burn readily when green. The little flowers lack petals but each has six lemon yellow sepals and they are clumped in clusters which, with the fruit, make it an ornamental shrub. The fruit, which ripens in autumn and clings on through winter, is a bright red oval berry, rich in oil and highly scented.
Robert Taylor- Member
Re: Help ID this tree from its leaves?
Thanks!
Now hopefully it survives the winter and that it can backbud.
It wasn't the right time of the year to get it, but it would have been dead next time the bulldozer came over.
Now hopefully it survives the winter and that it can backbud.
It wasn't the right time of the year to get it, but it would have been dead next time the bulldozer came over.
EpicusMaximus- Member
Re: Help ID this tree from its leaves?
BigDave wrote:JudyB wrote:At first glance I'd say ash.
Yeah Judy, or dogwood
Dogwood leaves are opposite.
JimLewis- Member
Re: Help ID this tree from its leaves?
yes, could very well be Lindera. But, after some internet searching i'm still confused...
All the pictures i found of Lindera leaves showed me that they tend to have LESS leafnerves than the leaves on the pictures here enclosed. I always count about 4 to 5 apparant nerves, and the leaves here posted count 5 to 6 or 7 nerves. Also the leaf points of Lindera (mostly) dont seem to have this twist or curl at the tips.
Why i'd say Lindera, because of the bark/branches with white spots (lenticels) the poster is talking about.
Lindera leaves should smell of gasoline, hence the name benzoin, I dont know if the leaves should be handled for that. Now its a bit late to smell that since its fall ;-)
Rhamnus Frangula (here very common in europe, but not so common in the US, mostly in eastern states) does have these leaves with more leaf nerves, and sometimes we find this curled leaf tip (maybe also on Lindera but i could not easily find that); and also have these white spots on branches but not so on older trunks/bark. The R.Frangula bark smells (stinks) when rotten and you can get your hands real dirty by handling it, in dutch the name for R. Frangula would be literally translated in english as 'dirty tree' . So thats a good sign :-D
And...my original guess was Prunus padus actually But only the P. Serotina is more common in america and has slightly serrulated leaves so this is not it.
All the pictures i found of Lindera leaves showed me that they tend to have LESS leafnerves than the leaves on the pictures here enclosed. I always count about 4 to 5 apparant nerves, and the leaves here posted count 5 to 6 or 7 nerves. Also the leaf points of Lindera (mostly) dont seem to have this twist or curl at the tips.
Why i'd say Lindera, because of the bark/branches with white spots (lenticels) the poster is talking about.
Lindera leaves should smell of gasoline, hence the name benzoin, I dont know if the leaves should be handled for that. Now its a bit late to smell that since its fall ;-)
Rhamnus Frangula (here very common in europe, but not so common in the US, mostly in eastern states) does have these leaves with more leaf nerves, and sometimes we find this curled leaf tip (maybe also on Lindera but i could not easily find that); and also have these white spots on branches but not so on older trunks/bark. The R.Frangula bark smells (stinks) when rotten and you can get your hands real dirty by handling it, in dutch the name for R. Frangula would be literally translated in english as 'dirty tree' . So thats a good sign :-D
And...my original guess was Prunus padus actually But only the P. Serotina is more common in america and has slightly serrulated leaves so this is not it.
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Re: Help ID this tree from its leaves?
Come on y'all! Both ashes and dogwoods have OPPOSITE leaves!
Russell Coker- Member
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i didnt even comment on it anymore, russellRussell Coker wrote:
Come on y'all! Both ashes and dogwoods have OPPOSITE leaves!
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Sorry, but people who don't know the difference opposite and alternate leaves don't need to be giving identification advice...
Russell Coker- Member
Re: Help ID this tree from its leaves?
abcd wrote:diospyros kaki , diospyros lotus ?
I dont think so, if you read the replies of the poster....a bark with white spots/speckles; that is clearly not the case with diospyros.
Epicus, tell us some more, do/did you find any fruit/berries (or whats left of that) underneath these shrubs/trees? or are all very very young trees that maybe dont fruit/flower. But that seems impossible because its hard to think that these trees had spread, but there not a single tree that fruit/flower.
cheers
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