Originally Posted by
TapTapTap
From the beginning of this discussion I have opined that:
1. It's hard to tell from photos of bark
2. If it has opposite twigs that it is either maple or ash and that it's pretty easy to tell those two apart.
3. If those photos were trees with opposite twigs then I would say they are maples rather than ash.
Then I was slammed for misleading people.
Andy - thanks for your response on the Norways. I've heard that there is a concern for them crowding out our native maples up here in Northwestern Vermont.
And I was actually in Granville Gulch (I mean GULF) today on my bicycle. I saw plenty of maples.
Ken
Ken
Did not mean to slam you. But was VERY confident from the photos by the OP that those were Red and some White oak. One or two of the photos looked possible but that is it.
Yes, plenty of indigenous maples in the gulch but, did you see any Norwegian maples in the Gulch? I never have seen a one, although there is a sizable stand of what I believe to be Norwegian Spruce on the north side of the Gulch. Have dreams about getting those spruce on my mill someday as they technically are a invasive species
I suspect the OP taped the oaks, it was his first and only year maple sugaring and then moved to Arizona where he took up cactus taping making cactus juice.
If it has thorns, it's a cactus, so things are simple there, I guess.
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