Tree ID help

[SPIKER]

looks like cotton wood to me as well but with all the bug holes it might be a elm it looks pretty well done for though. the blue cross fungus sure makes them disappear in a flash

Mark

 

[forester2]

Cottonwood

 

[dreamer]

Cottonwood.

 

[fish6942]

Ughhh, cottonwood?? That was my greatest fear!! I think after I drop it I'll post some pictures of the stump and a round or two before I commit to making it all into nice firewood lengths. I have other sources of better wood so I'm not going to bother if it indeed is cottonwood.

 

[Craig Clayton]

I checked on a plant map site. The most northern range of the Cottonwood is on the the southern range of the state of MN. The Basswood has a range all the way in the state of MN up to our common longest undefended border. And it ranges half way up in Ontario.
Craig Clayton

 

[beenthere]

IMO, it is not basswood.

I'm sure of that.

 

[clemsonfor]

Im a forester. Yet im a southern forester, and pine is mostly my thing as well as our local HW's. My first thought was cottonwood, before reading all the others. BUt i dont get much exposure to cottonwood (i see it from time to time) Ash or large elms here. I dont think sassafrass gets that big, like MOss said (at least i have never seen it around here that size?).

 

[SandburRanch]

Looks like slippery elm bark.
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[MossRoad]

Im a forester. Yet im a southern forester, and pine is mostly my thing as well as our local HW's. My first thought was cottonwood, before reading all the others. BUt i dont get much exposure to cottonwood (i see it from time to time) Ash or large elms here. I dont think sassafrass gets that big, like MOss said (at least i have never seen it around here that size?).

I can't tell the diameter from the photo, but I have a couple big sassafras on my property. :thumbsup: Probably well over 18" diameter.

As for cottonwood, I have never seen a branch come off the side of a cottonwood like that. Most of them around here are pretty straight, about half have multiple trunks from the base, but can't recall a branch like that. Wish we had a leaf from it.

 

[MossRoad]

Looking it up, however, I do not think sassafras is listed for Minn.