Dadnatron
Veteran Member
I've seen this thread started several times looking for a specific plant. I've tried to hunt through them to see whether any covered the tree about which I am to ask. Nothing does. So I thought perhaps it would be good to have an 'Official' ie all in this thread, thread for this oft asked question.
I was driving home over the weekend and saw a brightly colored yellow, orange, deep red tree along the Interstate. I had to drive about 8 miles to the next exit in order to turn around and get back to it. I'd like to know what type of tree it is. They are all along the roadside (I believe) but being that I am from Colorado and newly to KY, I don't know the trees very well.
Here are a few pics of the tree and leaves up close. I'm sure it is so common that it will be difficult to believe I don't know it... but I don't. Since I am planting trees on my place, I'd like to see whether I can find good examples of this tree for its fall color. I suspect the vivid variance of this tree is more of a situational/genetic variance rather than a species trait, but I won't know until I ask.
It had relatively dense, small branches emenating directly from a central trunk (for the most part) with intensely colored leaves. They were yellow, orange towards the inside with the last 2-3ft of the branches sporting a deep red. This was on the same branch.
Leaves were generally a rounded leaf shape with very small bumps along the edge. It was less of a serration and more of a pebbling/bump.
They are all over, but most don't have this intensity of coloring. They are not maple or Oak... or at least the leaves have nothing in common with the ones I know about. There were no seeds that I could see nor anything on the ground denoting a seed of any sort. I know the exit and marked the tree with duct tape on a couple limbs so I will be able to keep track of it as I drive by every week. I'd like to get some seeds from it, if that is how it propagates.
SORRY, I can't get the TBN site to not rotate some pictures back to upright. No matter what I do, they initially download normally but the Forum Page rotates them 90deg.
I was driving home over the weekend and saw a brightly colored yellow, orange, deep red tree along the Interstate. I had to drive about 8 miles to the next exit in order to turn around and get back to it. I'd like to know what type of tree it is. They are all along the roadside (I believe) but being that I am from Colorado and newly to KY, I don't know the trees very well.
Here are a few pics of the tree and leaves up close. I'm sure it is so common that it will be difficult to believe I don't know it... but I don't. Since I am planting trees on my place, I'd like to see whether I can find good examples of this tree for its fall color. I suspect the vivid variance of this tree is more of a situational/genetic variance rather than a species trait, but I won't know until I ask.
It had relatively dense, small branches emenating directly from a central trunk (for the most part) with intensely colored leaves. They were yellow, orange towards the inside with the last 2-3ft of the branches sporting a deep red. This was on the same branch.
Leaves were generally a rounded leaf shape with very small bumps along the edge. It was less of a serration and more of a pebbling/bump.
They are all over, but most don't have this intensity of coloring. They are not maple or Oak... or at least the leaves have nothing in common with the ones I know about. There were no seeds that I could see nor anything on the ground denoting a seed of any sort. I know the exit and marked the tree with duct tape on a couple limbs so I will be able to keep track of it as I drive by every week. I'd like to get some seeds from it, if that is how it propagates.
SORRY, I can't get the TBN site to not rotate some pictures back to upright. No matter what I do, they initially download normally but the Forum Page rotates them 90deg.
