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 often gnarly looking, patchy and uneven in its bark patterns, and much more likely to peel diagonally or even sideways.

The white oak, mature but not old, can also be pretty shaggy: