Help me ID this one, please

[Pagey]

Okay, I have my thoughts, but I want some second and third opinions. This is a slender, tall tree near a wet weather creek bed at the bottome of a hollow. We're at about 1,800 ft elevation on th Cumberland Plateau in Middle TN about 20 miles outside Fall Creek Falls State Park. Leaves are compound with 7 leaflets, almost silver on the bottom.

It has NO limbs until the top, and forks at the middle:

Leaves 1:

Leaves 2:

Leaves 3:

Bark near the base:

Bark about midway up:

 

[krex1010]

Looks like ash to me

 

[Wood Duck]

I think it is an Ash, but can't tell what kind for certain. I don't see why it isn't a White Ash. It is obviuosly a tree with compound leaves from your description and from the picture. It appears to have the leaves arranged opposite - for sure a lot of the small branches are opposite each other, which is typical for Ash. It looks to me like the leaflets have stalks, which would usually rule out Black Ash which usually has leaflets with short or no stalks. Aside from that, I have to guess and I guess White Ash. A lot of White Ash around here look like the tree in the picture.

 

[krex1010]

Yeah ibwas never good at distinguishing between white, black and green ash. But that tree looks very ashish

 

[Pagey]

I was thinking white ash as well, but I wanted some better educated guesses than just mine!

 

[wood spliter]

Looks like Ash to me also. The branches look opposite and that would be Ash with that leaf.

 

[CodyWayne718]

Walnut

 

[Woody Stover]

Grab it. From the look of the leaves, the tree has a very low moisture content. :lol: