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...
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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 ...
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...
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...
Carved beeches by the bridge
Beech trees are like elephants: one grey skin wraps the whole tree, and expands as the tree grows. This trio of trees is by the south end of the bridge (on the "Bridge trail"). Even if there were n...
Multi-trunk basswood
I learned from Tom Wessels that multi-trunk trees, like this one, result from the resprouting of a hardwood stump. The diameter of the original stump can be estimated by finding the center-points o...
Shagbark hickory
Look for dramatic mature shagbark hickories along Laurel Brook Rd and at the beginning of the Wadsworth Park trail that enters from Laurel Brook Rd. As Michael Wojtech explains, every tree handles ...
