Can anyone identify this tree?

Fatjay · Sep 8, 2015

Asked everyone I know and no one has a clue.

Fatjay · Sep 8, 2015

NCWayne · Sep 8, 2015

Try the link below and you ought to be able to nail it with some yes, or no questions.

That said, I believe it's some variety of Ash tree. We have them around here, and they look pretty much like what your showing.

Let us know what you figure out.

http://www.arborday.org/trees/whattree/

Fatjay · Sep 8, 2015

I thought it was an ash, and even tried that site already, but can't find anything with the red vine like stem, and they're all like that, not just the new ones.

RBoots · Sep 8, 2015

That is a "tree of/from heaven", an invasive
species. My sister in law had one of those that
was a good sized one land on her garage after
ants ate the base all up.

Ross
ugly bushes, try here

Chuck (CA) · Sep 8, 2015

Tree Of Heaven..Came over from the Orient in the turn of the 20th century. The name is a misnomer. It's a horrible tree that does whatever it can to get water, including killing any other vegetation around it with it's shallow roots. VERY prolific. Doesn't even make good firewood, but I do use it for kindling.
The good news is it pulls out fairly easily. Just don't do what I did; Use a 20 foot chain on a 30 foot tree.

jeffcat · Sep 8, 2015

Some sasy frass looks something like that but there are a lot of junk trees and bushes that have been brought in over the years. A good garden center or extension service may help. I have seen these around in s jersey.

LarrySTN · Sep 8, 2015

Also known as Chinese sumac. Had 2 in the backyard when we moved into grandma's house. My mother always called them tree of heaven, I always called them tree of hel*l. Both succumbed to my chain saw.

Fatjay · Sep 8, 2015

Sounds like a problematic tree. It's a shame, it looks nice. It did have a bunch of babies among the mess at the base. It came up among a few azaleas. It's standing about 15-20ft tall at this point. It's seed pod is huge though, I can see how it could spread easily. It's only about 2 years old at this point and has multiple trunks.

Janicholson · Sep 8, 2015

The Rhus family is radically wide spread. The leaves and branches are often tented red. The family includes sumac, cashew, poison ivy, and many others. The bark is also similar. The pinicle of seeds is different, but the seed pods of many varieties are not shown in the literature. Jim

RBoots · Sep 8, 2015

Jeffcat, Sassafras has large 3 lobed leaves, they are VERY colorful in fall, many hues of color. Dad has a stand of Sassafras behind his house, I really think they are a nice looking tree, even though they don't get real huge. A lot of people don't like them though, just as I don't like boxelder, to each his own I suppose. A guy that has a sawmill once told me Sassafras has the highest weight to strength ratio when it comes to bending, don't know if that's true or not.

Ross

CGID · Sep 8, 2015

Chuck (CA) and RBoots are both correct. It's a real problem tree.

Smit · Sep 8, 2015

Yes that is Ailanthus altissima or "tree of heaven", they originated in china and are still used by Chinese for medicines today, unfortunately here in the USA they are pointless no good trees that get cut down every time I see one.

2x4 · Sep 8, 2015

when I had a sawmill, a guy came to me wanting a Sassafras beam sawed for his horse-drawn mower. Supposed to be the strongest wood for as light as it weighed. Never did find a Sassafras 14' long like he wanted; all were too crooked.

jeffcat · Sep 8, 2015

My neighbor has real Sassafras trees behind his house and smell really nice when you cut them up with the chainsaw. Kinda have and old fasion root beer smell. There are other junk trees that people call sassafras but are not. This Entry, that is why I said garden center or extension service. As I said they are a junk trees that have been set loose over the years. Also check out purple loose strife plants, Bean trees, Paper mulberry, kudzu, multiflora rose bush and a boat load of other garbage that fools have set loose. Also zebra mussles, snake head fish, pythons in Florida and on and on. Stupid stink bugs got loose up near Allentown, Pa from a pallet that came from China. Now they also let loose the Asian long horn beetle. I have a original "weed" identification book from the late 1940s that my dad bought. What is in there and what we have running wild out there now will bend your mind! Now just look up on the internet "weed tree identification" and scoot down to the pictures. There is this thing about 24 pictures down. Go look.

jeffcat · Sep 8, 2015

Read you link. Wow I thought trumpet vine and paper mulberry were bad! Another thing was some idiots letting grackles, starlings, and English wrens loose in Central Park when it first opened so it sounded like a park in England! People are soooooo dumb and they keep on going! Can't use DDT anymore so now all of the bed bugs are loose. Just on and on.

Dean · Sep 9, 2015

We call that Sumac in my area. It's a weed that can grow 10' or more in a season.

Sasafrass is a hardwood that does not have a compound leaf like sumac.

Dean

Dean · Sep 9, 2015

Agreed, Jeffcat.

I long for the days when one could buy such useful products as DDT, chlordane, etc.

Dean

Jim in NC · Sep 9, 2015

We have called these kopel trees as long as I remember. They will grow often in
clumps along.field borders and fence rows and new ones will sprout from the roots
I have seen some that were 50' tall and 20" in diameter.

showcrop · Sep 9, 2015

It is called Sumac here as well. It is not a tree it is a noxious weed. Eliminate it as fast as you can, because it grows and spreads fast, not only be seed but also underground by rhizume. cut and burn it, then in the spring spray new shoots with brush killer.

Delawaresurfman · Sep 9, 2015

I've been an arborist for 33 years. It's a Sumac as stated, Staghorn Sumac. Noted by the huge deep red seed pods. 10-20 feet in height.
It is not Tree of Heaven, that is a Ailanthus Altisuma Tree. No where near alike. Which is a true tree that gets huge 60 feet in height and 24-36 inch diameter.
The Sumac is basically a weed, invasive species. Keep it in check or cut it down. Although it has awesome fall foliage colors.

MarkB_MI · Sep 9, 2015

Does it smell like peanut butter when you cut it? If so, I don't know what it's called, but KILL IT NOW!

Married2Allis · Sep 9, 2015

The ugly Sumac weed tree. Several state highway programs in the east have declared war on it over the past 20 years. Have sassafras trees growing along my meadow, like to pick leaves when mowing and suck on the tasty stems.

Donald Lehman · Sep 9, 2015

Looks like what we call Sumac. Trappers boil their traps in the leaves mixed with water to remove all scent from their traps. Turn a batch of goats on em ad they will strip the leaves off in five minutes and have the bark stripped in another ten. They love the things.

CGID · Sep 9, 2015

It can't be stag horn sumac. Stag horn is called that because its branches have a fuzzy coating, like a stag horn in velvet. Stag horn produces erect, compact, flame-shaped bunches of red berries.

PJH · Sep 9, 2015

The seed looks different from the plants that we call Sumac here in Southern Illinois.

I remember the name "Poison Sumac" from somewhere, and I searched it, and here's a link to what I found. Notice the text about the dangers of breathing the smoke if you burn it. Not saying that your bush is the same - just for your information.
Poison Sumac

CGID · Sep 9, 2015

I've had some coffee. It can't be smooth sumac either. That plant's bark and berries are smooth. It has erect bunches of red berries but they are not as tightly formed as stag horn's. Stag horn's berries are just as fuzzy as the rest of the plant. Nor can it be poison sumac. That one grows in shady, wetter areas and produces loose, pendant bunches of white berries. Delawaresurfman, cut into it and tell us what it smells like.

Delawaresurfman · Sep 9, 2015

Sumac it definitely is. Genus is Rhus. One of 30 or so varieties. Staghorn perhaps not. Tough to tell from a picture. No seed pods in the pictures which would narrow it down a bit. Location would as well. Here in the northeast Staghorn is one of the most dominant wild varieties. Landscape plants are a different story.

Dean · Sep 9, 2015

Agreed. Sumac it is.

A very fast growing weed. Can grow 10' or more in a season.

Dean

Janicholson · Sep 9, 2015

The Tree is the Asian Tree of Heaven. The tree Was originally mis-labeled taxonomically (Rhus family) and had literally centuries of assumption it was a Sumac variety. It is not. Read up on the Tree of Heaven, and you will see that tree, and its seeds, and the fact that it spreads by suckers and root propagation and is a weed tree that should be killed off. Jim

JRSutton · Sep 9, 2015

And to kill it off, I'd recommend a small to medium sized thermonuclear device.

Or an excavator if you don't have a nuclear weapons permit.

showcrop · Sep 9, 2015

(quoted from post at 06:37:13 09/09/15) It can't be stag horn sumac. Stag horn is called that because its branches have a fuzzy coating, like a stag horn in velvet. Stag horn produces erect, compact, flame-shaped bunches of red berries.

I see fuzz in the pics

Delawaresurfman · Sep 9, 2015

I have rethought my position. It is indeed a Ailanthus, as several posters have stated. The tree of heaven LOL, don't know who named that.
I did not see the picture of the seed pods at first in the picture. I picked up on that after reading through the posts a few times.
Closer inspection of the bark although small diameter is starting to look like a mature tree as well.
Simple tree ID consists of bark, leaves and fruit. Be it an apple, acorn or seed pod.
Take care.

Weldon K · Sep 10, 2015

Without a doubt, that is Ailanthus; Tree-of-Heaven. Many southerners call it Copel (pronounced co-pell). A darn pest weed tree. It has a disagreeable, stinking odor when the leaves or bark is damaged or crushed. I removed some in a thicket here just yesterday by uprooting them with skid-steer .
Cut it now and burn those seeds, they fly in the wind and spread everywhere. Put some full strength glyphosate ( Round-up ) herbicide on the cut stump to kill the roots.

Can anyone identify this tree?

Member

Member

Well-known Member

Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Member

Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Member

Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Member

Well-known Member

Member

Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Member

Member

Similar threads