Tree Identification
 

My friend and I were walking in my neighborhood this morning, which is leafless except for these beautiful trees. They're pretty common -we saw at least 10, but we don't know what they are and the several on-line identification thingies we tried failed. So if in doubt, ask The Cellar -there's bound to be a few tree nerds on here! :lol:

TIA :)

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Maple?

mon, I tried to use this site to help, but I couldn't answer some of the categories (like flat vs round tree stem?)

http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/leaf/Treekey/tkframe.htm

Unless there are maple types with leaves I haven't seen, I'd rule out maple.

A birch (the bark isn't right I don't think), an aspen?

I don't believe it's a type of maple. They have that very distinctive maple-leaf shape (:f32:), and have all lost their leaves here already.

Basswood Tilia americana


Bingo! thanks Shawnee. We got to this tree on another engine, but the pictures looked nothing like what we had seen. That, however looks pretty much spot on.

They should include fall pics to the ID sites too. this is really a rather distinctive tree in fall!

Catalpa?

Ahhh, you found it.

I like identifying trees, though. It's fun! :)

How weird you posted this thread , my hub and I were at the insurance office and they had these trees which have magnificent shape and color and we wondered what they were.

hehe well they're standing out now! Shawnee, yes it is fun. This is the first time I've got stuck, but I think it was dues to the crappy pics. We also found catalpa, but it's not that -the leaves are more glossy and less fleshy.

Tree books, bird books, and bug books. We had these little books when I was growing up and I used to love to look stuff up. I think I've missed my calling. Is there a job called "Walkin' Around Identifyin' Stuff"?

It looks like a Littleleaf Linden to me. We have one. They are fairly popular now because they are disease resistant and do well in a wide zone.

Edit: And I see that Basswood and Linden are the same tree, but the Littleleaf Linden is a variety popular with homeowners and local governments. Tilia cordata

Hmmm it does look like that too, although i'm not sure the fruit and tree shape are quite right. I knew i should've picked one of the fruit, but it's not my tree.....

Yup. There's a guy whose job that is in the school district here. Takes kids from all the schools on nature field trips. We call him "the guy who walks around and identifies stuff"

Shaw, you once again prove that we were separated at birth. And Monnie too I suppose, for asking - although I think you are perhaps a half-sister. I love identifying trees, wild-flowers and birds. Insects, not so much - in this country they all fall under the category harmless, and that will do for me.

I bought a tree book when I lived in Leicester because the soil is so different to my native Bucks, and very different trees grow wild/ are planted. Lime trees for example - I doubt there's a single one in Aylesbury. Ditto, I can't remember seeing more than a few Ash in Leicester.

One of the many reasons it's good to be home is walking past the same trees I have all my life - there's a Horse Chestnut I knew as a sapling which is now a respectable young tree.