Located near Albany NY. It’s totally dead but loaded with grape vines. The scraggly branches are throwing me off. Going off the bark I’d think some subspecies of white oak?
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Branches look like some kind of fruit tree, could it be Pear?
Could be?
My first thought on the branches was they looked like the plum trees I used to have. But this is a big tree, over 20” diameter.
My first thought on the branches was they looked like the plum trees I used to have. But this is a big tree, over 20” diameter.
I vote pear.
I am sure it is not peppermint, blue gum, red gum or ironbark.
Other than that, I'm not entirely sure I can help, apart from taking out the Australian sector.
Other than that, I'm not entirely sure I can help, apart from taking out the Australian sector.
nighthunter
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Spruce? Lol
My dad has a sweet gum next to his driveway with nasty looking branches like that, so that's my vote.
johnnyballs
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mulberry ???
Are those root suckers at the base? I was thinking fruit tree by the branches too. Bark does not look like sweet gum; doesn't look like the Bradford pear outside my front window, but the Bradford branching doesn't look like your picture either. 20 inch diameter is large for a fruit tree, what is the height? It is next to a house; do the residents have any suggestions?
I am thinking pear.
I am thinking pear.
I’ll check for suckers shortly. It’s stone dead so there may not be any.
The camp has been on this property for nearly 100 years. This was almost definitely planted by humans as it’s not a native tree to these woods, or at the very least is the only one on the property as I’ve covered nearly every inch of it over the last several years.
There’s a bunch of this growing all over underneath it. The bark on the trunks (most are 1-2” diameter) looks similar to the bark on the limbs of the big tree except no cracks in the bark. Bark is similar to immature black cherry but lighter in color.
panolo
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Got to be a fruit tree with all the twig branches. Looks like some of the pears can get 20" plus.
I googled the bark and it sure looks like you guys nailed it with Bradford pear. And I see the pear leaf varies with location but the veins of the leaf I posted look identical as well.
I wouldn't think Bradford pear but some type of fruit bearing pear. Bradfords only flower.
No, not Bradford, but yes pear.
It’s confirmed as pear as the camp director said it used to produce hundreds of pears. I guess which subspecies isn’t as important since it’s dead.
That is not a Bradford pear tree. Bradford pear is a flowering tree. The fruit on "Bradford pears" are called Callery pears, are inedible, and are 1cm or less. There are hundreds of Bradford pear trees around here.
If you planted a "Bradford pear" tree then it was either mislabeled when you purchased it; or it has cross pollinated with another species of pear tree.
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