What kind of tree is this?

• Apr 11, 2011

• #1

catalpa

Senior Member

This tree came up in a barrel I purchased at an estate sale, any one have a clue?

 

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• Apr 11, 2011

• #2

Nicodemus

The Recluse

Staff member

Looks like a mulberry.

 

• Apr 11, 2011

• #3

catalpa

Senior Member

That was my thinking but not sure. The bark threw me. I guess we will know come June.

 

• Apr 11, 2011

• #4

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Citiboy287

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Wehave one of those I believe its call a Princess Tree , its ornmental grows like crazy Huge leaves makes a long flower which is all seed and end up with seedlings all over the place But great for shade tree

 

• Apr 11, 2011

• #5

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Citiboy287

Banned

yep found the link http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/invasivetutorial/princess_tree.htm

 

• Apr 11, 2011

• #6

shakey gizzard

Senior Member

Citiboy287 said:

yep found the link http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/invasivetutorial/princess_tree.htm

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I dont think thats the same leaf as the op's. However , I have witnessed the princess tree go from seedling to 40 footer in 4 years. Very invasive!

 

• Apr 11, 2011

• #7

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westcobbdog

Senior Member

could be a sassafras? doesn't look quite like a mulberry to me.

 

• Apr 11, 2011

• #8

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meriweatherw

Banned

White Mulberry

 

• Apr 12, 2011

• #9

Flaustin1

Senior Member

Looks like sassafras to me to but i aint no expert.

 

• Apr 12, 2011

• #10

R G

Senior Member

Almost looks like a fig tree.

 

• Apr 12, 2011

• #11

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Twenty five ought six

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westcobbdog said:

could be a sassafras? doesn't look quite like a mulberry to me.

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Flaustin1 said:

Looks like sassafras to me to but i aint no expert.

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Sassafras has three types of leaves.

A finger

A hand pointing.

A hand (three lobed) leaf.

And that's how it was explained to me in the 5th grade. Seriously, next you see a sassafras, check it out. Three different leaf forms.

OP looks like Princess Tree to me.

 

• Apr 12, 2011

• #12

rvick

Senior Member

not sassafras, my friend gave me a seedling of something that looks like that and said "you can't kill it". years & much Roundup later, i am still spraying the shoots that pop up 20-30 feet away. they run underground & pop up at each nodule in the root. i almost have it under control now... i think.

 

• Apr 17, 2011

• #13

Flaustin1

Senior Member

I know a sassafras has three different shaped leaves. I didnt look at the pic close enough. It seems that that tree has two

 

• Apr 17, 2011

• #14

drippin' rock

Senior Member

Looks like cottonwood to me.

 

• Apr 17, 2011

• #15

NCHillbilly

Administrator

Staff member

That looks to me like a paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera.) Definitely not a princess tree (I kill them by the thousands at work,) sasafrass, or cottonwood. The paper mulberry is a non-native Asian tree that has naturalized throughout the Southeast, and can become quite invasive.

 

• Apr 17, 2011

• #16

Miguel Cervantes

Jedi Master

I'm going with Paper Mulberry, and it should be destroyed just as the Paulownia (princess tree) trees should. The bark nor limb structure are correct for a Sassafras tree.

http://www.invasive.org/weedcd/species/5208.htm

 

• Apr 18, 2011

• #17

rvick

Senior Member

thanx guys, paper mulberry appears to be what i have. thought that maybe i had it under control, but 2 new sprigs came up last week. i was told to try Tordon RTU as it appears to have become resistant to Round-Up type herbicides.
catalpa, do yourself a favor & kill it now.