Tree ID

[billfred]

Southeast Michigan

 

[jackatc1]

Looks like Elm to me.

 

[billfred]

Great. Based on the leaves and what I googled, might be slippery elm.

 

[CincyBurner]

Pics of leaves and bark looks like mulberry, and I think I can see unripened fruit in center right of first pic.

 

[billfred]

No fruit ever comes on this tree.

 

[CincyBurner]

Venation on elm (including U rubra) is tighter and more uniform. http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=42
And leaf margin is doubly serrate.
Surface of slippery elm leaf is scabrous (sandpaper). http://forestry.sfasu.edu/faculty/s...-916/photographs/105-ulmus-rubra-slippery-elm

Mulberry is typically a dioecious species (male and female on different trees). http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=527
Sometimes mulberry leaves are lobed, but often not. Leaves have single serration.

Can you take a close-up of the center right area of pic #1.

 

[Bushels20]

Leaves and bark look like an Elm, however I wonder about the multiple trunks coming from the base. I have about 6 in my back woods and many in the area and none of them look like that. All have a single trunk with large canopy at the top.

 

[billfred]

Actually there is little berries. I guess it might be mulberry.

 

[JimBear]

Actually there is little berries. I guess it might be mulberry.

It sure looks like mulberry bark & leaves. Those defiantly unripened mulberry’s. You’ll like it, it burns well & splits a lot better than elm.

 

[JimBear]

In my limited experience American Elm will/can have multiple trunks or branch off very low, Red Elm is usually a single trunk & not fork off till farther up the tree.

 

[Tar12]

Pics of leaves and bark looks like mulberry, and I think I can see unripened fruit in center right of first pic.

You are spot on...Mulberry.

 

[Kevin Weis]

Yep, Mulberry. As said some Mulberry's don't have berry's.

 

[tadmaz]

Never looked it up before, but mulberry has a janka hardness of 1680 and the btu's per cord is super good, between oak and hickory.