Wood id please

[Chas0218]

Looking at some property and it had a lot of young trees along with some older mature growth and I just wanted to make sure it was what I thought. I was thinking beech. It is some Pretty diverse property with maples, oaks, pines, hornbeam, and beech if I'm correct.



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[Diabel]

I am no expert but it looks like a poplar to me

 

[muncybob]

Poplar bark around here don't look like that, but that leaf does look like poplar. Bark looks more like beech or birch?

 

[Chas0218]

I was thinking birch but the one tree pictured was about 8" across and no peeling bark. There were a couple smaller birch 3" diameter about 50 yards away and were peeling. This is also in southern N.Y. Attached is another photo of the leaves in the area where I grabbed the other. The other leaves aren't quite as rounded.


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[FaithfulWoodsman]

Not beech or birch. That's a hybrid poplar. Dozens on my prop.

 

[begreen]

Looks like quaking aspen which I think is in the poplar family.

 

[firefighterjake]

Poplar . . . aspen. No question. The bark and leaf are the give-aways . . . but you can also rub the bark and a talcum like powder may rub off . . . and if you take your fingernail and scratch the bark it may reveal a green layer right underneath the thin white exterior bark.

Beech looks quite different . . . both with the leaf and bark . . . but don't give up . . . tree identification is a learning process.

 

[Chas0218]

Thanks, yeah I wasn't sure figured that's why I would ask. There are a bunch clustered together only a few feet apart. It is one of the thicker parts of the property.

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