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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Sept 14, 2016 14:34:58 GMT -5
Any ideas on what this is. Great shade tree.   |
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Post by nfalls116 on Sept 14, 2016 14:41:04 GMT -5
Elm
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Post by scrub-buster on Sept 14, 2016 15:32:47 GMT -5
Elm x 2
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Post by nfalls116 on Sept 14, 2016 15:46:21 GMT -5
Furthermore I'm Pretty sure it's a slippery elm
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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Sept 14, 2016 15:51:08 GMT -5
Thanks!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2016 19:34:56 GMT -5
Nice to see a large Elm. Lost all of mine to the Dutch elm disease.
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Post by Woody Williams on Sept 14, 2016 19:45:17 GMT -5
Nice to see a large Elm. Lost all of mine to the Dutch elm disease. Yep.. I lost my one and only elm a couple years back. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2016 20:18:46 GMT -5
Nice to see a large Elm. Lost all of mine to the Dutch elm disease. Yep.. I lost my one and only elm a couple years back. I lost 5 or six about 12 years ago and replaced with Black Walnut. The last three years I've lost 8 Ash Tress and replaced with 260 trees (70 Red Oaks, 80 White Oaks, and 110 wildlife trees. All trees on 3 acres. I have around 9 15-20 old oak trees of all varieties. Someday my little piece of heaven will be a gold mine for all animals. I have a 1/2 acre field to plant a deer food plot next year. Didn't have the time this year with my new wall project. |
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Sept 14, 2016 20:41:59 GMT -5
I told you that nfalls knows stuff.
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Post by swetz on Sept 14, 2016 21:05:13 GMT -5
How do you do that? I don't know if my brain just isn't wired right for that, but unless it's a really obvious leaf (I know maple and oak), I have no idea what kind of tree I'm looking at.
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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Sept 14, 2016 21:38:58 GMT -5
Saw this one down at the Purdue Animal Hospital. Looked real healthy and gave out a ton of shade. I need to see how they fair in sandy soil.
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Post by nfalls116 on Sept 14, 2016 22:31:48 GMT -5
Well far as I've seen they will grow just about anywhere. A couple similar trees (at least to me) are hackberry and persimmon. Best part is they don't die like elm.
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Post by esshup on Sept 14, 2016 23:38:10 GMT -5
I've got an Elm that is about 12" DBH growing on sandy soil here. The power company cut down half of it, as it was leaning over the wires. It split into 2 trunks right at ground level. One was straight, the other way leaning over the power lines. Not any more.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Sept 14, 2016 23:56:12 GMT -5
I've got an Elm that is about 12" DBH growing on sandy soil here. The power company cut down half of it, as it was leaning over the wires. It split into 2 trunks right at ground level. One was straight, the other way leaning over the power lines. Not any more. That must have been a low wire. |
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Post by duff on Sept 15, 2016 4:19:18 GMT -5
How do you do that? I don't know if my brain just isn't wired right for that, but unless it's a really obvious leaf (I know maple and oak), I have no idea what kind of tree I'm looking at. Practice. It has to be something you want to learn. Once you want to learn and have the right tools to learn it is pretty easy. Pick a tree you dont know what it is and learn it. then do another. Every time you see a tree try to ID it. You my not be as good as nfalls but that is a high bar to set! Trees of Indiana by Charles Deam is great for starters. Of course internet is great. Facebook has great groups that help on plant ID. |
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Post by nfalls116 on Sept 15, 2016 9:24:18 GMT -5
I'm not good with my trees but am getting better.
Like Duff said just learn it plant by plant not the whole forest at once. I am constantly taking pictures of plants and coming home trying to figure out what they are.
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Post by dadfsr on Sept 15, 2016 9:46:06 GMT -5
Saw this one down at the Purdue Animal Hospital. Looked real healthy and gave out a ton of shade. I need to see how they fair in sandy soil. Now wait a minute!!!! You were in my "backyard" and didn't stop to say "Hi!" ?!?!?!! I'm actually trying to figure out where at the PU Animal Hospital you saw this?? Some of the trees around there I've actually planted! If it was the Small Animal side then a lot of that landscape was put in by the landscape crew that I was leading....but that's been almost 20 years ago too  Plus the elms that were planted around there are not native elms but are varieties that have been crossed with Chinese elms to give them some disease resistance....I'm thinking that we were probably mostly planting "Homestead" elms back then but would have to make a call to the old campus arborist to make sure-and yes every tree on campus is cataloged and mapped out with the known history of every tree included if at all possible. A lot of this campus tree inventory is more doing the needed hazard assessments on a regular basis for the trees that are big enough to need it done-which also means that about every 5 years every tree on campus is measured and tracked. I guess I'm also tempted to say the bark pic you have looks more like a white oak than an elm though?? But the leaf is definitely an elm. Another reason to know exactly where you took the pic at.... |
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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Sept 15, 2016 10:31:03 GMT -5
I took the pic at the small animal side. We had our dog there (she's quite ill:( ) If your are standing outside the entrance door looking away from the hospital, across the parking lot, the tree is in the corner. I'm thinking it's the SE corner. The bark had a twist to it.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Sept 15, 2016 13:37:40 GMT -5
As long as I have you fellas, I don't really need to store anymore information in my limited capacity brain.
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Post by dadfsr on Sept 15, 2016 13:40:32 GMT -5
Well, well, well.....I was wrong-we all were wrong!!!! I just went over and checked out this tree (thanks for the excellent location description Genesis!)-it's actually a hophornbeam! Or more correctly- ostrya virginiana!! plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=OSVII was pretty sure that's what it was after taking a quick look and a call to my old co-worker and THE campus arborist confirmed it. People that regularly work with plants will most commonly refer to the scientific name when describing a plant simply because different areas/regions may have several different common names for one plant-which is why I always give the scientific name when describing a tree. Got any more questions about trees on the PU campus certainly don't be afraid to ask!!! Even though I've been away from the arborist side of the job for several years my mind can still occasionally pull out a fun fact or two for our trees on campus. Unfortunately the campus has really undergone a lot of construction in the last 25 years or so that has also taken out a lot of the trees that I dealt with while working on the grounds dept. However I can still proudly walk around campus and say "that's my tree"...why?....because I planted it!!!! |
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