This is the best tree identification video I have ever seen. I've been waiting years for such an informative, gorgeous, and respectful film like this. Thank you.
Dave Canterbury has a 6 part series and a few others random tree videos on identification and usages that are worthwhile. It's broader in scope but not lacking in detail
Here I am in my California apt watching a almost 30 min video of Northeastern hardwoods, but I love it! Thanks for the video! Makes me want to go out to my local forests and find out about our native trees in California
Hello, Peter...I live here in North Central Arkansas and I enjoyed this video. I moved here after living in Dallas for nearly 20 years and knew very little about tree identification. Oh, I knew a Cedar from a Pine and I knew a Cottonwood from living along the Mississippi River when I was a kid, but I knew very little about Oaks and so many other hardwood & softwood trees. So, right after I moved here I took a tree identification course at the local Community College that was taught by a Forester . I soaked up as much as I could and got a good, beginners knowledge about the trees that grow in this area. I am forever thankful for that course and the Forester. I have Red & White Oak trees in my yard, along with about 7 or 8 other species as well and I love it.!! I really like my White Oaks...the bark actually looks a lot 'whiter' compared to the Red Oaks, especially the older ones and after a rain, and I like the overall branch structure of the White's over the Red's. But I love all of my trees. Thank you for your videos.
Trees don't get enough attention, I live in Boston and the history of the revolution and the beginnings of our nation involved trees, as a matter of fact the king of England had his men mark the tallest, straightest trees for the masts of his ships, this had a strong reaction from the local population, here's some king that's never stepped foot on this soil declaring he owns the trees, it was part of the revolution, we used trees for everything, buildings, fortresses, houses, trees are an intricate part of our lives, I'm sitting in my apt, built with wood from trees, great to see a show that shows our most useful forests. Thank you
Awesome presentation. Sycamore balls make fun target practice for a boy with a .22 rifle. That was our Tannerite before we had Tannerite.🙂 I will add that beechwood provided my family with a good bit of monetary security. National Brush had a factory in Glasgow KY and produced wooden brush handles from the very dense hard wood. They didn't apply the bristles at that facility. They processed thousands of board feet of beech lumber into brush handles of all shapes annually. The plant had planers, edgers, molders, and shapers. Some of the machines were very high speed in order to achieve a smooth cut. They required special electrical power and motors for the high speed. My family had an electrical service business. We had someone in that factory nearly every day for ~50 years. Dad would bring pickup loads of the drop trimmings home to burn for heat. We also got sawdust and shavings for the chicken house. Very few wood brush handles now they are PLASTIC.
I live in the Catskill mountains of new York . I'm trying to figure out hardwoods and softwood for primitive fire making with my daughter. I've learned a bit , but I need more study I guess. Great job , and thanks for your awesome video.
Thanks. Enjoyed it. Interesting that the bark on trees there in the deep woods in NY tends to look differently here in Minn. The northern red oak bark in particular looks different here - much chunkier here. Same for our sugar maple.
Have spent many hours hiking in that park and have even 'white water rafted' the gorge a few times. And did you know Letchworth has one of the healthiest Timber rattlesnake populations in the state! Great tree indent. vid by the way!
This was an excellent video. I think it's the best tree identification video on UA-cam. Of course there are various type Maples and Oaks rather just broadly identifying Red or White, but you have the basis here of telling the difference between the two major categories. Unfortunately for me I'm in the deep South so the exquisitely beautiful Fall Aspen tree just isn't an option. Perhaps the highest elevations of The Smokey Mountain range might support them. This Gentleman did a fantastic job with his video.
As a Western forestry man who has seen very little of the East, I found this very instructive. May I offer a couple of things? •I think you need a pin-on microphone, so you are always local to the sound system. •It would be OK to throw in a tiny bit of nomenclature, such as the sinus of leaves. •Those who want more information on trees and their identity can benefit from books by Elbert L. Little. He is in "field guide" and other books associated with Audubon. Field guides deal with tree ID in all parts of North America, UK, Europe and Africa. I also like the PACIFIC COAST TREES by McMinn and Maino.
I hope you'll make more of these videos! Thank you for sharing your time & knowledge... Best videos I've seen on tree identification... The clarity of your video quality is awesome!!! I found what I thought was a red pine today & your other video confirmed it... Yay!
Amazing pool of knowkedge, I will never look at 'a tree' the same. Maple, dogwood or Ash I probably have narrowed down however I am certain to watch this again,
I live in Westchester and have a lot of Beach Trees in the woods here but I haven't seen any with the disease that you spoke of so hopefully they will stay that way. This is a very informative video. Thanks for taking the time out to make this!
Carol Olivie there is a European beech species that you sometimes find growing in villages, where they were planted. They don't get the blight. Thanks for watching, and please check out my other tree videos!
I’m currently on a mission to learn how to identify and have knowledge about trees and types of wood. Ever summer I aim to learn a new skill, and this year, it’s just that.
Awesome video. I took the motorcycle to letchworth last September. Breathtaking to say the least. I live in Ulster county on 5 acres and been slowly learning the trees as I have been prowling for firewood. Many dead ash trees from the EAB. I got a good section of Beech trees and I consider them a nuisance due to their ability to sprout from their roots and their ability to block so much sunlight. I am happy to learn that Beech provides excellent firewood and will be looking for any that have that bark disease. I never cut down live trees but will make an exception for unhealthy beech tree.
Those trees are better than what you guys think about how best the wood is from them or a little disease alot of animals make that tree they're home and they're food for every year that was a blue beechnut tree he showed still as good as the other beechnuts that grow a little different than that type i kept a seedling from our old one
Wow. What a great video. I've not seen such a diversity in trees 40 yrs. Sad about ash was always go to fire wood. When you ran short. Seasoned on the stump. (I know pre planning would have prevented it. But there is thing called life that keeps messing that up. Called wife children etc. Easier to deal 100 year old tree than a disgruntled woman. ) Is there anything you can do to help ash? Always kept seed trees. Look healthy. Try to keep diversified forest so disease can't run rampant. Parents had place cut off 15 years or so. Noticed a lot of species missing since then. Yellow birch gone. Maples on decline. Ash as well. White pine almost non existant. Mostly fir some spruce. Noticed also. No more choke cherries. Black cherries. Even alders on the wayside. Spent a good portion of my time cutting by hand. (Biscuit wood). Buck or bow saw. Battle of the century (lol ). Always thought I'd never win. I left and came back all gone or changed. I know mother nature does what's right. Just want to understand. Ash trees keep hidden amongst spruce and fir. Poplar take out on a regular basis. Fast growing short lived tree. 30 to 40 yrs max . harvested 24 inch on stump that I planted at 10 yrs old cut at 40. Love your video. And any tips would be greatly appreciated. Especially on ash and maple or even beech. My go to fire woods Keep .my seed trees have way too many conifers. But hesitate cutting cuz they are the buffer between soft and hardwood. Don't know how old you are. Remember spruce budworm. Catostrophic.. Man made. 1970's. Monoculture. Great when it works. Horrific when it fails. As ole man Shoefelt said, Knew an engineer once worked for the railroad. Maine .
This isn't the sort of video I'd expect people to watch all the way through, so why pizzazz up the ending? I imagined folks scrolling through it, looking for the species they are trying to I.D.
Red Maple is actually quite harder wood than silver maple and has more commercial value, Silver maple has softer wood but not as highly sought after as Red Maple. Both are classified as soft maple but red maple is the most common wood marketed as soft maple. Of the soft fast growing maples, Red maple is the hardest, and then Silver maple and then the softest is Box elder which has little commercial use.
Very informative I live in northeastern central pennsylvania so your forests and mine are identical. You should add 3 more to show the same trees during fall winter and spring. My dogs and I love to hit the trail and I found an oak that is 5.5 ft wide 3 people holding hands cant wrap around it so I'm determined to find out about it and try to protect it. It has to be a couple hundred years old which is amazing because most of Pennsylvania's forests have been logged after Europeans settled here
WESTERN NY BIGFOOT one thing I forgot to mention about white oak is that the base of the trunk tends to flare out a bit. It's less apparent on the huge one I posed with.
I second the thanks!! Learning later than sooner here in northwestern Connecticut. Every other ash here is doomed, unfortunately. Cut up a beech tree this summer that broke in two due to wind. Bark disease, I assume. Lots of tulip poplar down from high winds. Greater starter wood but must mix with other firewood.
Nice video. You'd think after all the wonderful invasive gifts we've gotten from Asia (Brown stink bugs, emerald ash borers, spotted lantern flies, certain lady beetles, chestnut blight etc etc etc) that we would learn to be a little more careful and quit bringing many things here from other regions of the world so haphazardly. Then there's white nose that's killing brown bats from Europe.... The Chestnut Blight should have been the last time anything like that ever happened. The mountains I hunt and hike in are called the Chestnut Ridges because that was the dominant tree there. Now, you'll rarely find one popping up from roots that rarely make it more than 5 feet before they are killed by the blight. I sure hope scientists are able to bring them back with their breeding programs.
thank you Mr Collin, no we are in San Antonio Tx. in here we know them by "fresno", but I was told that is from the Ash family, more specific a Colorado ash,. thank you.
Shellbark Hickory (C. Laciniosa) can easily be mistaken for Shagbark Hickory (C. Ovata) where their populations overlap. Shellbark hickory is similar to shagbark (Carya ovata) in its bark that peels away in plates. Trees of shellbark tend to be shorter and with heavier branches than shagbark, and the bark plates of shellbark hickory are straighter (with less curve).
Thank you! I've been trying to figure what species is being attacked this spring by a leaf gnat like bug that's making Beech leaves curl up and harden. You described it to a T. I noticed the anomaly yesterday at the Bartlett Arboretum in Stamford CT, and in the 74 acres that belong to the Museum. They are a lovely shade tree and I know deer eat the soft leaves from young trees. Also, there is a shocking lack of squirrels and other critters this year but plenty of wood peckers and other birds. In 2018 someone predicted the squirrel population would collapse due to low nut production from oaks here in Southern Fairfield County. What's that all about?
@@Mike-su8si Would have to be the ones that someone let grow into a tree. I have pulled many a sumac bush up and their roots run very close to the top of the ground. Not a water saving tactic, but makes them easy to pull up.
+Pavel Burtsev True. For this video, I didn't try to bog people down with jargon or fine details. We just want to teach people rudimentary tree species ID. There was a lot of ground to cover.
Thank you Peter, very interesting video. I have land in the Southern Adirondacks. I am trying to rebuild the forest with some Oaks, Black Walnut, and American Chestnut. And I am trying to cut back the Beech. My Oaks I planted have produced acorns, but My Black Walnuts have not. Do you think the growing season is to short for them to produce?
Walnuts are very fussy about where they grow. they like rich deep soils, and ample water. They also thrive in the midwestern states, which makes me think they don't like the cold as much as, say, hard maple. In my career i have seen quite a few failed walnut plantations.
Beech can linger for quite a few years with the scale disease. But they will be poorly formed. If you cut them without treating them with glyphosate, they tend to send up hundreds of sprouts from the stump, exacerbating the problem. The effect can be lessened by cutting beech in July or August, before they have stored energy in their roots for the winter.
This is the best tree identification video I have ever seen. I've been waiting years for such an informative, gorgeous, and respectful film like this. Thank you.
Dave Canterbury has a 6 part series and a few others random tree videos on identification and usages that are worthwhile. It's broader in scope but not lacking in detail
1:22 Red Oak (Quercus rubra)
4:15 White Oak (Quercus alba)
5:53 Black Cherry Tree (Prunus serotina)
7:19 Soft Maple (Acer Rubrum)
11:00 Hard Maple (Acer saccharum)
13:15 White Ash (Fraxinus americana)
15:25 Basswood (Tilia americana)
16:23 Beech (Fagus)
19:43 Aspen (Populus tremuloides)
20:56 Cucumber Tree (Magnolia acuminata)
22:03 Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
23:20 Bitternut Hickory (Carya cordiformis)
24:16 Shegbark Hickory (Carya ovat)a
25:15 Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)
Part 2: ua-cam.com/video/R_8jFyZskrI/v-deo.html
Can't thank you enough for this video, trying to learn tree id basics and by far the best source I've found to this point! Much appreciated!
I agree totally!
Thank you very much Mr. Collin. Nice job. Concise and to the point. And sans intro music. Perfect! Very informative.
Here I am in my California apt watching a almost 30 min video of Northeastern hardwoods, but I love it! Thanks for the video! Makes me want to go out to my local forests and find out about our native trees in California
You have an excellent way of presenting this information... thank you! I am utterly jealous of your knowledge in the area of trees.
Bro that maple ash or dogwood alternate trig's technique is so great for me as a novice to narrow things down. Thank you so much
thank you for this video. youre a true professional and your passion is contagious. I learned a alot . cheers from Ottawa
Who would dislike such a nice video?! Thank you for sharing.
Hello, Peter...I live here in North Central Arkansas and I enjoyed this video. I moved here after living in Dallas for nearly 20 years and knew very little about tree identification. Oh, I knew a Cedar from a Pine and I knew a Cottonwood from living along the Mississippi River when I was a kid, but I knew very little about Oaks and so many other hardwood & softwood trees. So, right after I moved here I took a tree identification course at the local Community College that was taught by a Forester . I soaked up as much as I could and got a good, beginners knowledge about the trees that grow in this area. I am forever thankful for that course and the Forester. I have Red & White Oak trees in my yard, along with about 7 or 8 other species as well and I love it.!! I really like my White Oaks...the bark actually looks a lot 'whiter' compared to the Red Oaks, especially the older ones and after a rain, and I like the overall branch structure of the White's over the Red's. But I love all of my trees. Thank you for your videos.
Trees don't get enough attention, I live in Boston and the history of the revolution and the beginnings of our nation involved trees, as a matter of fact the king of England had his men mark the tallest, straightest trees for the masts of his ships, this had a strong reaction from the local population, here's some king that's never stepped foot on this soil declaring he owns the trees, it was part of the revolution, we used trees for everything, buildings, fortresses, houses, trees are an intricate part of our lives, I'm sitting in my apt, built with wood from trees, great to see a show that shows our most useful forests. Thank you
The best hardwood tree id video I've seen on UA-cam. Thanks!
Thanks Adam! I've got some other tree videos besides this one.
Awesome presentation. Sycamore balls make fun target practice for a boy with a .22 rifle. That was our Tannerite before we had Tannerite.🙂 I will add that beechwood provided my family with a good bit of monetary security. National Brush had a factory in Glasgow KY and produced wooden brush handles from the very dense hard wood. They didn't apply the bristles at that facility. They processed thousands of board feet of beech lumber into brush handles of all shapes annually. The plant had planers, edgers, molders, and shapers. Some of the machines were very high speed in order to achieve a smooth cut. They required special electrical power and motors for the high speed. My family had an electrical service business. We had someone in that factory nearly every day for ~50 years. Dad would bring pickup loads of the drop trimmings home to burn for heat. We also got sawdust and shavings for the chicken house. Very few wood brush handles now they are PLASTIC.
I met an Amish outfit that made yo-yos from beech.
@@petercollin5670 I'm betting they weren't hand whittling those yo-yos.😂
This is awesome! Thank you. I wish I could walk around the woods with this guy a couple times.
Those feild cherrys, smell so sweet when they are split, and nothing smells better when burnt. Thank you for posting and sharing.
Good video and very clear. I'll be watching it a bunch more times to try to drum all the info into my head.
Excellent video Dr. Peter!!
I live in the Catskill mountains of new York . I'm trying to figure out hardwoods and softwood for primitive fire making with my daughter. I've learned a bit , but I need more study I guess. Great job , and thanks for your awesome video.
Thanks! I used to do a lot of fishing in the Catskills. Beautiful countryside. I've got lots of tree videos if you care to peruse my channel.
Excellent information and very well presented. Thank you!
Thanks. Enjoyed it. Interesting that the bark on trees there in the deep woods in NY tends to look differently here in Minn. The northern red oak bark in particular looks different here - much chunkier here. Same for our sugar maple.
Thank you so much...I learned a lot. I live in the western Catskills on 10 acres and have been taking snow hikes...the forest is amazing.
That's a beautiful area. I used to fish from Deposit to Livingston Manor all the time. If you're interested, I have lots of other tree videos!
I'm learning a lot watching your videos; they are GREAT!
Thank you sir
Have spent many hours hiking in that park and have even 'white water rafted' the gorge a few times. And did you know Letchworth has one of the healthiest Timber rattlesnake populations in the state! Great tree indent. vid by the way!
I'd like to walk around the woods with you. Thank you for the video, sir!
Wonderful video on tree identification my friend.
Yeah except for the beechnut tree other than that he did ok
Fascinating. Here In Oregon we have "Big Leaf Maple" a Hard maple & "Vine Maple" a soft maple.
Anyone else taking notes...??? LoL
Could literally watch these vids all day...
Thanks for distilling deciduous tree ID. I live in Eastern Canada in the Great Lakes St-Lawrence region of trees. Great tutorial. Thanks.
Thank you for the video! I'm hoping to get in to bow making so being able to identify trees is a huge help.
Excellent video. Very much appreciated.
Thank you Pete ! I love the forest and always saying to myself,, i gotta learn to identify trees !
Best plant ID video I've ever seen. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Thanks! I've got some other tree videos you can see on my channel.
This was an excellent video. I think it's the best tree identification video on UA-cam. Of course there are various type Maples and Oaks rather just broadly identifying Red or White, but you have the basis here of telling the difference between the two major categories. Unfortunately for me I'm in the deep South so the exquisitely beautiful Fall Aspen tree just isn't an option. Perhaps the highest elevations of The Smokey Mountain range might support them. This Gentleman did a fantastic job with his video.
Nice video. New to the channel. Found this really interesting
Cheers from Victoria Canada
Excellent video ! Thank you for making it
Thanks for posting, good job explaining key points.
As a Western forestry man who has seen very little of the East, I found this very instructive. May I offer a couple of things?
•I think you need a pin-on microphone, so you are always local to the sound system.
•It would be OK to throw in a tiny bit of nomenclature, such as the sinus of leaves.
•Those who want more information on trees and their identity can benefit from books by Elbert L. Little. He is in "field guide" and other books associated with Audubon. Field guides deal with tree ID in all parts of North America, UK, Europe and Africa.
I also like the PACIFIC COAST TREES by McMinn and Maino.
Yeah if the book isn't rewritten then it's worth looking at
Awesome video! I live near letchworth Park and I can’t wait to go hiking and try to identify all the trees!
I like trying to find bi colored winter green plants the most of that I have found before likes growing right under pine tree's
Thank you very much. I will probably have to watch this at least 100 times, to digest it all. But I very much appreciate your explanations.
I hope you'll make more of these videos! Thank you for sharing your time & knowledge... Best videos I've seen on tree identification... The clarity of your video quality is awesome!!! I found what I thought was a red pine today & your other video confirmed it... Yay!
Amazing pool of knowkedge, I will never look at 'a tree' the same. Maple, dogwood or Ash I probably have narrowed down however I am certain to watch this again,
Ah ha! I knew it was letchworth from the split second I saw it! I live in Saranac lake! Best state park! 😍
Native to the area and tree enthusiast. Great content!
I appreciated this video, I learned a lot about the different kind of maple. I believed only one kind existed. Thank you, Pete.
Hi Rena! Nice to see and hear from you.
Thank you so much for this resource!
This is perfect. I love you. Thanks!
I love White oaks
Beautiful place. Great video. Thanks
I live in Westchester and have a lot of Beach Trees in the woods here but I haven't seen any with the disease that you spoke of so hopefully they will stay that way. This is a very informative video. Thanks for taking the time out to make this!
Carol Olivie there is a European beech species that you sometimes find growing in villages, where they were planted. They don't get the blight. Thanks for watching, and please check out my other tree videos!
I’m currently on a mission to learn how to identify and have knowledge about trees and types of wood.
Ever summer I aim to learn a new skill, and this year, it’s just that.
Great video, sir. Thank you!
Super well done video, thanks for making/sharing it!
I so much respect you sir for this great informative video of different tree species ! I learnd a lot ! Thank you!
Awesome video. I took the motorcycle to letchworth last September. Breathtaking to say the least. I live in Ulster county on 5 acres and been slowly learning the trees as I have been prowling for firewood. Many dead ash trees from the EAB. I got a good section of Beech trees and I consider them a nuisance due to their ability to sprout from their roots and their ability to block so much sunlight. I am happy to learn that Beech provides excellent firewood and will be looking for any that have that bark disease. I never cut down live trees but will make an exception for unhealthy beech tree.
beech wood burns so good. my favorite
Thanks for your video! Found it very informative. Keep it up man!
Nice informative video I wood love to visit that park real nice timber.
Extremely informative. Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing this
Also, Black Cherries often have growths on them, and also relatively few large branches.
Those also like to fall over like the red oaks and silver birch trees
I've seen them with branches that look like a whole tree so some make really thick branches
Very nice job. Explained very well.
Great video, specially valuable that you show how a tree varies as it ages or if attacked by disease
You are a damn good man. Great video!
Neet, I always thought the diseased beeche trees were some kind of birch, good video Peter.
Those trees are better than what you guys think about how best the wood is from them or a little disease alot of animals make that tree they're home and they're food for every year that was a blue beechnut tree he showed still as good as the other beechnuts that grow a little different than that type i kept a seedling from our old one
Na they're just in the same family as that and others
Great video -thanks
Wow. What a great video. I've not seen such a diversity in trees 40 yrs. Sad about ash was always go to fire wood. When you ran short. Seasoned on the stump. (I know pre planning would have prevented it. But there is thing called life that keeps messing that up. Called wife children etc. Easier to deal 100 year old tree than a disgruntled woman. ) Is there anything you can do to help ash? Always kept seed trees. Look healthy. Try to keep diversified forest so disease can't run rampant. Parents had place cut off 15 years or so. Noticed a lot of species missing since then. Yellow birch gone. Maples on decline. Ash as well. White pine almost non existant. Mostly fir some spruce.
Noticed also. No more choke cherries. Black cherries. Even alders on the wayside. Spent a good portion of my time cutting by hand. (Biscuit wood). Buck or bow saw. Battle of the century (lol ). Always thought I'd never win. I left and came back all gone or changed. I know mother nature does what's right. Just want to understand.
Ash trees keep hidden amongst spruce and fir. Poplar take out on a regular basis. Fast growing short lived tree. 30 to 40 yrs max . harvested 24 inch on stump that I planted at 10 yrs old cut at 40.
Love your video. And any tips would be greatly appreciated. Especially on ash and maple or even beech. My go to fire woods
Keep .my seed trees have way too many conifers. But hesitate cutting cuz they are the buffer between soft and hardwood.
Don't know how old you are. Remember spruce budworm. Catostrophic.. Man made. 1970's. Monoculture. Great when it works. Horrific when it fails. As ole man Shoefelt said, Knew an engineer once worked for the railroad. Maine .
Great video.
Very informative. Thanks.
Thank you for this wonderful video!
Well, that ended abruptly. A lot of good information, thanks for sharing!
This isn't the sort of video I'd expect people to watch all the way through, so why pizzazz up the ending? I imagined folks scrolling through it, looking for the species they are trying to I.D.
Just hand planted several Red Maples Here in Southern California from Seeds
Great video
Red Maple is actually quite harder wood than silver maple and has more commercial value, Silver maple has softer wood but not as highly sought after as Red Maple. Both are classified as soft maple but red maple is the most common wood marketed as soft maple.
Of the soft fast growing maples, Red maple is the hardest, and then Silver maple and then the softest is Box elder which has little commercial use.
Very educational video on identifying trees. Nice Job!!!!
An awesome place - thanks for sharing
Very informative I live in northeastern central pennsylvania so your forests and mine are identical. You should add 3 more to show the same trees during fall winter and spring. My dogs and I love to hit the trail and I found an oak that is 5.5 ft wide 3 people holding hands cant wrap around it so I'm determined to find out about it and try to protect it. It has to be a couple hundred years old which is amazing because most of Pennsylvania's forests have been logged after Europeans settled here
Thanks! I might do those videos in the future. I also have a few other tree ID videos on my channel.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Great video! Thank you for making this and sharing your knowledge!
Hey! I like Patchouli! LoL Wonderful video.
Thanks..really focusing on white oak
WESTERN NY BIGFOOT one thing I forgot to mention about white oak is that the base of the trunk tends to flare out a bit. It's less apparent on the huge one I posed with.
I love the smell of fresh cut white oak .......ah !
I second the thanks!! Learning later than sooner here in northwestern Connecticut.
Every other ash here is doomed, unfortunately.
Cut up a beech tree this summer that broke in two due to wind. Bark disease, I assume.
Lots of tulip poplar down from high winds. Greater starter wood but must mix with other firewood.
Great video thanks for the info
Great content! Thank you!
Thanks! I have a couple other tree ID videos too.
most excellent, thank you.
Nice video. You'd think after all the wonderful invasive gifts we've gotten from Asia (Brown stink bugs, emerald ash borers, spotted lantern flies, certain lady beetles, chestnut blight etc etc etc) that we would learn to be a little more careful and quit bringing many things here from other regions of the world so haphazardly. Then there's white nose that's killing brown bats from Europe.... The Chestnut Blight should have been the last time anything like that ever happened. The mountains I hunt and hike in are called the Chestnut Ridges because that was the dominant tree there. Now, you'll rarely find one popping up from roots that rarely make it more than 5 feet before they are killed by the blight. I sure hope scientists are able to bring them back with their breeding programs.
Awesome vid. You should see the Cross Timbers here in SE Kansas. 95%+ of all trees are post oak or blackjack oak in some areas.
thank you Mr Collin, no we are in San Antonio Tx. in here we know them by "fresno", but I was told that is from the Ash family, more specific a Colorado ash,. thank you.
Thanks that was hugely informative. For that last tree, sycamore, the leaves seem bat-shaped.
Shellbark Hickory (C. Laciniosa) can easily be mistaken for Shagbark Hickory (C. Ovata) where their populations overlap. Shellbark hickory is similar to shagbark (Carya ovata) in its bark that peels away in plates. Trees of shellbark tend to be shorter and with heavier branches than shagbark, and the bark plates of shellbark hickory are straighter (with less curve).
Excellent - thanks for the video!
Thanks for making this video.
Thank you! I've been trying to figure what species is being attacked this spring by a leaf gnat like bug that's making Beech leaves curl up and harden. You described it to a T. I noticed the anomaly yesterday at the Bartlett Arboretum in Stamford CT, and in the 74 acres that belong to the Museum. They are a lovely shade tree and I know deer eat the soft leaves from young trees. Also, there is a shocking lack of squirrels and other critters this year but plenty of wood peckers and other birds. In 2018 someone predicted the squirrel population would collapse due to low nut production from oaks here in Southern Fairfield County. What's that all about?
Great video!!!!!!!
Sycamore trees can help indicate where water, of a various quality, is closer to the top of the ground on ridgetops.
And sumac and willows
@@Mike-su8si True. Hadn't heard that about sumac, but certainly willows.
@@frankenz66 sumac to
@@Mike-su8si Would have to be the ones that someone let grow into a tree. I have pulled many a sumac bush up and their roots run very close to the top of the ground. Not a water saving tactic, but makes them easy to pull up.
@@frankenz66 I let mine grow like that maybe they'll take over more of the front yard i like them better than silver maples
At the beginning you differentiate leaves from needles but all conifer needles are leaves too (except for the pine)
+Pavel Burtsev True. For this video, I didn't try to bog people down with jargon or fine details. We just want to teach people rudimentary tree species ID. There was a lot of ground to cover.
+Peter Collin Indeed. Thanks for the helpful video
Thank you Peter, very interesting video. I have land in the Southern Adirondacks. I am trying to rebuild the forest with some Oaks, Black Walnut, and American Chestnut. And I am trying to cut back the Beech. My Oaks I planted have produced acorns, but My Black Walnuts have not. Do you think the growing season is to short for them to produce?
Walnuts are very fussy about where they grow. they like rich deep soils, and ample water. They also thrive in the midwestern states, which makes me think they don't like the cold as much as, say, hard maple. In my career i have seen quite a few failed walnut plantations.
Thank you for the video. Very very helpful
Excellent videos thank you!
Interesting. Thank you for this.
I'm curious. How does beech trees grow if they are "sick"? Can they be cured? Should they be cut down if they are sick?
Beech can linger for quite a few years with the scale disease. But they will be poorly formed. If you cut them without treating them with glyphosate, they tend to send up hundreds of sprouts from the stump, exacerbating the problem. The effect can be lessened by cutting beech in July or August, before they have stored energy in their roots for the winter.