RickP
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I'll bet it's a sycamore tree (we call them buttonwoods too).
The knots didn't really look like a tulip tree, and I think the mottled bark really points to a sycamore.
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The knots didn't really look like a tulip tree, and I think the mottled bark really points to a sycamore.
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Jeff Ivers
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Well, I just looked up sycamore tree on the internet and neither the bark nor wood match what this is. The bark is not splotchy green/tan. The bark on this reminded me of hickory - darker gray, almost black, with strips of bark curling up. However the bark appearance may have been affected by how long this tree had been dead or by whatever killed it. Good suggestions. I tried the only tree book I have, but the bark illustrations in it are almost worthless - book relys mostly on leaves and blooms/seed pods/nuts.
RickP
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Well that's strange -- all the buttonwood trees around here have splotchy bark.
I found these sycamore photos online:
But I'm not too familiar with hickory, so that might be a better match.
I found these sycamore photos online:
But I'm not too familiar with hickory, so that might be a better match.
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Jeff Ivers
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Here are hopefully better pictures of the bark and wood of the tree I am trying to identify. So far, I think I have ruled out 41 species. There were no thorns on this tree. I have used 2 tree books in conjunction with internet searches on the wood and bark of each tree that I was trying to match/eliminate. Next, I am going to try to find a list of trees native to Oklahoma and go through them. Sure would have been easier if I had known in advance this tree was going to die so I could have taken a picture of the foilage and and any blooms!