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What tree is this?
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Essex County
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Trying to identify the tree this seed pod and leaf came from. Any thoughts?
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are the leaves in clusters of 7, maybe a horsechestnut? does the green break of with a nut insidefukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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maybe not, leaf looks wrong
http://tree-species.blogspot.com/2009/03/edible-chestnuts-vs-horse-chestnuts.htmlfukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it -
The tree is behind a garage in Boston. The trunk has a fairly smooth, light bark and is about 6 inches in diameter. It is about 20 feet tall and growing against a wall. The green thing has 7 seeds in it. It's dried out since I took the picture and pod has split to reveal the seeds. I first thought it was some kind of chestnut also, but now I don't think so.
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How big is the seed pod and the leaf?
Gator -
The seed pod is about 2 to 2.5 inches in diameter. The leaf, about 5 inches long.
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Resembles one of the gums - e.g., sweetgum or american sycamore - but you're pretty far north for that. I don't recall the seedpods being as big as you state but they certainly look similar. Sycamore has a largish 5-lobe leaf I think - any chance that the leaf in your photo has been torn a bit?
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I thought it might be a Hazelnut or a Witch Hazel but I don't think so.
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The leaf is whole. I also thought it might be a gum tree but the only ones I know have smaller pods. This one is almost the size of a racketball.
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Hmmm . . . that's bigger then I thought. Being in Boston it may not be native. I'll be interested to see if someone can ID it.
Gator
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Well then, you have to help us further . . .
Been a long time (45 years!) since 10th grade biology but I seem to recall that things that would help include whether the leaves are alternate or opposed, the height of the tree, color and texture of the bark, etc.
I think you'll find its something in the gum family but I haven't any idea which one. -
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that's poison sumac.
hahahaha'
(kidding)ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante -
im going with beech, scroll down on the link, pod has several nuts and i looked a few leaves on other sites, they can be smootk or saw like on the edges
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fishlessman wrote:im going with beech, scroll down on the link, pod has several nuts and i looked a few leaves on other sites, they can be smootk or saw like on the edges
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Holy smokes Fishless!!!1
I bet that link is longer than any fish you've ever caught! -
maybe any ive landed :laugh: biggest ever to take a fly was atleast 20, maybe 25, thats in feet
big ole thing rubbed his back on the underside of the boat, thought the motor was going to rip off. that is one big link though :laugh: fukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it -
found a couple sites that let you drill down based on leaf, fruit type, etc. and it kept coming up as sweetgum, beech, even sycamore
i have had a few sycamores, they have giant leaves, and didn't look like that
the other option was a type of chestnut.
those three were pretty consistent
i couldn't find an exact match, so i gave uped egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante -
im sticking with beech because of several seed/nuts coming out of the pod and that last summer half my chord wood that came in was beech.fukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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"chord" wood? wassat, like for making pianos?ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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its the kind that causes you to sing loudly when your splitting it and a piece sails off the block and hits your shin :laugh:fukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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hahaha
yeah. i can see you singing while chopping wood. what the guys at the shop don't know about you...hahahaed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante -
You mean you don't cut your own wood :S
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You're right but I can't get more info until monday when I go back to the office! I will try to take a couple more pics. I guess I could ask someone in charge of the grounds at my campus. Would that be cheating?
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Yeah, I went to the site suggested by bitslammer and a few others. You get to gum or beech but nothing looks right. I thought all beech trees were destined to be giant. Don't think I'd plant one next to a wall but maybe it's a different kind of beech. Still, I'm leaning in that direction.
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if it is small, it could just be a son of a beech.ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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Essex,
Let us know what the grounds crew said.....
You thinking of taking some trimmings home for smoking? -
who has time to cut wood when they fish. at camp its nice to burn a cords worth in the winter so it gets deliverd there almost as cheap as full lengths here. at home i burn coal, messy but aweful convienient. 4 ton coal is about 8 cords worth which is what i burn at homefukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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Sycamore/SweetGum.
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I finally got around to asking the folks who take care of the grounds on the campus. The tree is the Turkish Filbert, Corylus colurna.
Turkish Filbert
Thanks for your many thoughtful guesses!
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