Tree ID

[TonyF]

Birch? Can someone ID this tree? There are many of them concentrated in one area to rear of our property. None of the pictures in my tree books can match it up exactly.

Tony

 

[jimmyj]

That's not like any birch I have ever seen. I don't know AL that well, but here we have maples that look like that. They grow in wet areas.

 

[smstonypoint]

If the first photo is a closeup of the second photo, I'm guessing young tulip (yellow) poplar.

Steve

Edit -- I think I see small beech trees in the second photo (brown leaves).

 

[Willl]

Alder ?

 

[jinman]

I'm thinking maybe beech.

 

[woodchuckie]

That is a beech in the background with the brown leaves on it. We have lots of small beech in wet low areas. We don't have any as big as the tree in your picture.

 

[smstonypoint]

That is a beech in the background with the brown leaves on it. We have lots of small beech in wet low areas. We don't have any as big as the tree in your picture.

And the slender upright growth without low limbs argues against beech, or at least the ones I'm familiar with.

Steve

 

[forgeblast]

Looks like a sugar maple. They grow pretty good in the wet areas on our property. Its wet and has a good canopy so there is moss on it, but i would look around the base for a leaf, easier to match it with a leaf.

 

[BoonvilleKid]

My guess, of the first photograph, is yellow popular or tulip. A beautiful tree. Now, don't you even think about cutting those!!

 

[TonyF]

Thanks guys. I've owned the property for less than a year so don't really know how wet it stays. The area is somewhat low and I've been told it stays moist. In fact, I got a mini-ex stuck back there a week or so ago. But, we had a hot dry summer and it did dry out this summer. It borders a farmer's field which holds a little water.

The canopy is pretty heavy, most of the trees I've removed have been long and thin reaching for the sunlight.

I'm in the process of clearing a work area back there to store debris until I can burn it. I still have about 30 blasted sweet gum trees to pull out from the front.

Tony