This tree is located in Central GA. Smooth bark with rough raised knots. Growing near a stream in a low lying area with lots of privet. Any idea what it is?
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That is it! You are the man LP. Thank you sir.
I advise my students that are Minoring in Surveying that they should take Dendrology while going to LSU. It's a 2-semester credit hour course. For some reason, the State Board of Registration will only give one hour credit for the course. I found that curious.
Snoop. If you ever get the chance to take the Tree Identification class from Tom Hurley (usually sponsored by SAMSOG) take it. Tom is a Graduate forester as well as a Land Surveyor. I still have a handout from his class from several years ago.
Andy
It's proper common name is a SugarBerry, but we all call them Hack Berrys.
Larry
Look up sugar berry. 🙂
If you happen to have an i-Phone, get the Leaf Snap app. It's a handy tool for getting an ID on an unknown tree. But here in Florida, everything is either an oak, a pine or a palm tree...
I used to think that a hackberry tree was what you called a tree if you didn't' know what kind it was!
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Tree schoolin???
Take a class to learn trees? I suppose now your gonna tell me there's a class to learn how to walk.
Get out in the woods with and learn them yourself.
Celtis Occidentalis-common hackberry
Celtis Laevigata-sugarberry
appears to be a hackberry because of the serrated(sp) edges on the leaves.
a hackberry and a sugarberry are pretty much the same w/ the exception that the leaf of a hackberry has serrated edges (like a "hack"saw) and a sugarberry has smooth edges ("s" for sugarberry and "s" for smooth), at least that's the game that i made up to remember the difference.