Anyone care to guess at this one. The bark of the tree was smooth grey and the trees has lost nearly all their leaves except for a few ratty ones. This is central Florida.
coming from a Texas boy...Help with tree ID
Catalpa?
Did it have any beans/seeds? probably wrong time of year.
Looks to me like one of the Mulberrys. Can't tell for certain from just those leaves which one. But definitely look at the Mulberry genus. (Morus sp.)
Larry P
Possibly ash leaf maple? Any "helicopter" seeds?
mulberry
that's got my vote - the finely serrated leaf edge is evident.
coming from a Texas boy...Help with tree ID
> Catalpa?
Except the margins are serrated, not smooth.
(word not allowed) sylvatica...european beech?
Just a WAG...US
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Kinda looks like distressed paper mulberry?
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/pubs/midatlantic/brpa.htm
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Was the twig easy to snap off or did it get stringy on you and you had to work to get it to break in two? Mulberry twigs get stringy and don't snap clean. Also, if you cut the branch or root base, it will bleed a white milky sap almost immediately if it is a mulberry.
Opposite or epicormic branching. Tells volumes of the species, but looking at the leaf I'm going with the Mulberry gang. Don't think it's a beech though. Could be some local thing that somebody planted??
Truth comes out on your windshield after the birds eat the berries.
My knowledge-rich method is to wait until fruit bearing time then wait for one to fall on your head. If it is an apple, it will be an apple hitting your head. If it is an oak, it will be an acorn hitting your head. If it is a watermelon, it will.................
Thanks for the help, everyone.
I did a search and Mulberry looks good to me.
I think it is a Basswood. I need to look up the leaf edge for a basswood. They have a distinctive fruit (seed). The seed is usually three pods ( about the size of a single peanut) on a very small stem.
Not a basswood. On those each side of the leaf joins the stem in a very unequal manner.
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Larry P
That's a Mulberry.
That looks like an American Lynn (Lynnwood) Tree. It's commonly miscalled as a Mulberry around here.
A Lynn and a Basswood are the same species. This isn't that. The way the leaf joins the stem is wrong. Notice how on the basswood the two sides join at odd and different angles.
Not a lynn or basswood.
Larry P
Looks like a Common Hoptree.
Mulberries come around summer, then you will know for sure. 😉