Name that tree.

“I need some help identifying a tree. Maybe some of you will be able to suggest a few that I can google to see if it's the right one. I have this huge tree in my back yard. It drops about a billion of these wierd burr like seed things in the winter. Not sure if this is the exact seed but it sure does look similar.



Of course it's located in East-central Alabama. Any idea what it is?”

“Liquid amber or sweet gum”

“that is not a larch... a larch”

“I love you SC. I'm so doing you the next time I see you.”

“um.....a thank you card would be enough”

“Ooo ooo ooo ooo....I know this!!! I learned it this past weekend from a ranger at Turkey Run. It's a Sweet Gum.



Darn it...SC beat me to it!!!”

“Just found this neat web site to help in tree identification:

http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/tree-key/tree-key.htm”

“sorry...cant help myself....the forestry student and timber cruiser in me forces me to know these things...”

“Its definately a sweetgum. If you use it as firewood. don't try to split it for firewood as the grain of the tree actually twists inside making it nearly impossible to split.”

“I love you too RUby. Well I can do both of you then :D I know who to come too when I have more foliage questions now... SC is the x-pert :) I have about a billion trees in my back yard that need identifying!”

“Not sure if I'll be using it for fire wood. It's f'n HUGE and it about 10 paces away from the back of my house. Beautiful in the summer but those little droppings are a PITA!

Sorry jack... I'm not going to do you.”

“DDX, migrating birds love em!!!”

“LOL ENS! Can't call yourself a true fan if you don't get it!”

“damn excuses...I know you just wanted us to say "cool picture"...

but just in case you REALLY wanted to know...
it's called "sweet gum" ;)

oh...and ENS knows trees much better then we do:

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“: (”

“Wooops wrong bud”

“Sweet Gum...or if you have ever stepped on the balls at night in bare feet......A @*(& $^*Q^)^#)%&*^(*& Sweet Gum.”

“:)”

“that dag gum thing is a gum although i think that's the name for it in this region...i think it has a different name...those "gum balls" can be rather annoying, especially on bare feet”

“They make great practice golf balls though.”

“ENS, that looks like three larches/tamaracks.



Spirit Coyote cruises for "timber"?”

“"Bill"”

“Sweet Gum...or if you have ever stepped on the balls at night in bare feet......A @*(& $^*Q^)^#)%&*^(*& Sweet Gum.”
XL400236
6:35:14 AM
2/23/06

Hear! Hear!

Those things are he11 on bare feet!”

“As for splitting it....wait for it to rot (LOL). It is sap heavy tree so it will coat your chimney..causing chimney fires.”

“It looks as though ENS is nailing something to that tree.”

“Sweet Gum...or if you have ever stepped on the balls at night in bare feet......A @*(& $^*Q^)^#)%&*^(*& Sweet Gum.”
XL400236
6:35:14 AM
2/23/06

steps on his balls?...i guess that's why they call him XL”

“that was a big gigantic old growth hemlock tree in Ricketts Glen I was hugging. Probably better than 750 years old. I couldn't even hug a third of the tree.”

“WTF is the Larch joke??”

“it's a monty python flying circus joke.

They had an episode where they kept showing a picture of a larch and htey'd say.. "this is a larch..... A .. Larch." and now for something completely different.. "this is a larch.... a larch."

pretty stupid, but very funny.. had to been there.”

“I have a root you can hug ENS...”

“I hear Banjos...”

“DOESN'T KNOW THE LARCH JOKE?????

Well you wouldn't say frodrich would you?”