Central Virginia. One guy says maple, another says hornbeam, I say neither but idk.
Posted Jan 20, 2016, 10:45 PM UTC
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Iron wood/musclewood? Basic guess.
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Bark doesn't fit.
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I would say Carpinus caroliniana, American hornbeam.
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Bark looks too textured to me
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If it weren't for the photo of the twigs I would have said that bark was Cladrastis.
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Hahahaha so nobody can determine what this is...
below I mention needing leaves and I get downvotes, well clearly we need leaves in this case assholes, I wasn't wrong, otherwise those people who down voted, why not tell us what this tree is without leaves
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Definitely not maple-- maples have opposite branching and this is alternate.
Could you upload a better photo of the buds? I can't make out anything clearly in this photo.
http://imgur.com/VWGAFKP
mostly stupid glove though
Neither the buds nor bark look like hornbeam (Carpinus sp.) to me-- unfortunately, though, I'm not sure what it is.
Need some leaves at the least...
Meh, a lot of times if you have bark an a good photo of buds/leaf scars, that's plenty-- but in this case the photo's just not clear enough (and also I'm not as familiar with flora of Virginia as I could be)
I'd look in amongst that groundcover growing under it. There's bound to be some leaves in there from last season. Though there does seem to be a lot of trees in that neighborhood, so it might be hard to be sure which ones came form this tree.