young conifer with character
I believe this is a young red pine, but failed to document other features of this tree...
pignut hickory
The pignut bark may look almost shiny when young -- the outer layer has a bit of a sheen, and is only a bit broken up by vertical lines of strain. New bark layers seem to build up under the protect...
An iconic sugar maple
This old sugar maple (acer saccharum) is one of the first to greet main-entrance visitors at Wadsworth Falls park. The bark, according to one expert, is best thought of as "the bark that doesn't lo...
An elder black birch
Black birch (betula lenta) is the bark that changes the most as the tree ages. The diameter of this trunk is almost two feet: Only one patch of bark, on the lower portion of trunk, hints at the ...
chestnut oak
I've had my eye out for this species since noticing it in Wojtech's book. The clean lines around the vertical scar here interrupt the otherwise chunky blocks that mark the mature tree. Update: Ret...
Bark ID challenge… and answer!
Though it's hard to capture depth in a photo, this bark has deeply "stacked" layers -- see especially the upper right. At least 8 layers of bark, each about 2mm thick, have remained stuck to the ou...
Black Cherry
This bark is sometimes described as burnt potato chips, or burnt cornflakes.
Arboreal Contours...
Knobs stick out of sycamore trees where branches once extended from the trunk. As the tree devotes itself to growing toward the canopy for light, many lateral branches are allowed to die.
Not all shaggy trees are hickory
Besides the shagbark hickory, sugar maples, white oak, and other hickories can all have very shaggy bark in certain phases of their growth. Unlike the shagbark hickory, old sugar maple bark is oft...
Black birch
Young bark on the black birch (betula lenta) looks like the patch at right (almost smooth with horizontal lenticel marks), and mature bark has many rough areas as at left, but mid-sized trees often...
A diseased beech?
This bark, examined by itself (at left), does not look much like a beech. But the roots, and the sprouts growing out of the roots, do. (Note the pale leaf clinging to the young branch in center.) T...
beech leaves cling and fade through winter
Copper-colored in autumn, almost white by spring, these leaves, generally in pairs, still flutter in the breeze as the last of the snow melts. The leaves cling most to the younger trees. This young...
The Bridge Trail over Laurel Brook
Note the scarred and diseased beeches against the eastern wall.
Oops, not a beech.
This tree doesn't retain clarity of initials the way a beech tree does. Perhaps it looked enough like a beech tree when it was young. My best guess is that it's a tulip tree (sometimes called "yell...
An oriole was the meal...
Striking against the snow, these bright oriole feathers (many scattered nearby) suggest that something -- perhaps the red-tail hawk I had seen moments before -- had consumed everything but the feat...