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The website for Virginia’s Arboretum has an excellent artivle on saving this yree. Tge new director is heavily into tge research on the gungus. Tge sciebtists havent done much work on identifying VA trees yet so shes begging us to look for them. They pay for trees tgey transplant on private property, i imagibe, but mainly the study needs us to tell her where you see them so they can map it out. The website is:coming now in a second comment.
My dear Mother taught my sister and I when were were 6-7 , she would have us go get willows, and get roots in summer . Then she'd have us sit and watch after soaking. She'd show us how to start , how to dye. I wasn't good at it but my sis did awesome! Thank you for your channel Sir!! Very much appreciated. My mom made Deghitan Athabaskan root trays out of her willows back in "60's.
These videos are awesome, Thanks for taking the time to make these!!! I've been using them to help me with my dendrology class. Thank you Lenny Farlee.
I've found SO LITTLE information on this tree. When I bought my house I had a HUGE stump that the owners had left standing, and it turns out it was a water locust. I had an arborist who didn't even know what it was! I finally just had the stump taken down today, and I'm going to try to cut it up and see what the wood looks like and if there's anything cool I can make out of it - be it cross cut slab, or cut into boards. What I had read a long time ago is that it's particularly dense and a good weathering wood - so I think it'll be interesting!
Black willow is a soft wood not known for strength and is subject to storm damage at lower wind speeds than stronger trees like oaks, hickory and other dense hardwoods, although internal or external injury or rot can compromise the best of trees. The approximate wind speed that produces damage is dependent on too many variables to easily assign.
We don't claim expertise in the health use or edibility of many of these plants, so checking foraging or herbal medicine references would be our recommendation.
I moved into the Southern part of Montgomery, Texas, in 2020. Ive been a country boy all my life but im finally living that life. I have been stocking my property with various fruit trees and vining plants. The Mulberry has recently moved to the top of my list. Once it did, i spotted numerious trees in my travels around my area. I drive a school bus so i see a lot of areas. I happened to learn i have what i believe to be a male Red Mulberry in my chicken area. I'm 99% positive my next door neighbor has a male tree also. His is huge! I'm waiting for spring to see if his has the male flowers like mine does. I have also located what i believe to be a female Red Mulberry. The reason i think its a female is because it has dozens of small young trees sprouting up all around the base. It happens to be just across the ditch from a main road. I have been researching, IDing red from white and i feel i have a good handle on their differences. My area SE Montgomery Co. Texas seems to have a very healthy population of Red Mulberry trees!
If you give us an email address (or send us one at fnrweb@purdue.edu), we can send a recent photo of a hackberry seedling, which will hopefully help with ID. Also, Lenny suggests doing ID and marking now with flagging, but waiting until leaves fall before digging and transplanting.
Saplings will usually have the same leaf and bud characteristics as the adult trees. Since you won’t have nuts produced for several years, ID can be a little more difficult with young trees.
I have a tulip tree starting to grow under my outdoor stair case. It's about 2-3 ft tall now. I'd like to transplant it and rather not destroy it. Do they handle being transplanted well and do you have any suggestions.
Lenny said he would wait until the leaves have fallen this fall to move it. They have a fibrous root system and do best with adequate water, so you should move as much of the soil with the tree roots as possible and water well and often once transplanted. Be sure to plant it in a place with plenty of growing space. This tree can grow quickly and can be one of our largest Indiana trees.
I have one growing in my yard. It's about 10 years old. I'm sure a squirrel planted the acorn, in a perfect spot in my yard, and I decided to let it grow.
Thanks for the video. I have a woods full of similar type of cherry shrubs. The leaf, bark and fruit are 100 percent identical to the images in this video. But the flower is bright yellow early spring. I would think it's the cornelian cherry except the leaf is much different. One day I will identify these cherry shrubs...
We would need some photos to make an attempt at ID. We suspect it could be spicebush, but that is speculation, based only on the flower color. You can send photos to fnrweb@purdue.edu and we can try to assist with ID.
@@purduefnrextension Thank you for the information. I just looked up spicebush and that is 100% the plant. I have thousands of them in my woods. I always thought I have black swallowtails, now I need to look closer as they may be spicebush swallowtails. Thanks again!
@@7secondmalibu Glad to hear the guess was correct. Spicebush is almost never browsed by deer, so it has an advantage over other shrubs and can build substantial understory populations.
I have 3 gigantic ones in my yard. They all have that bacteria drippage on them. Im hoping i can help them somehow because the shade is really nice in Colorado. 😅
Thank you. I work as a Certified Arborist here in Indiana. It's vitally important to be able to identify tree species quickly when speaking with customers. I've really benefited quite a bit from your videos.
They can be. There is natural variation in size and shape and they will change shape to some extent as the cone scales loose or absorb moisture - drier cones will be more open, and moist cones will tend to have more closed scales.
I'm in Tennessee but thank you very much. I think this is my tree. Unfortunately it's dying. Branches keep dying up in the top. Trying to find out off there's any way to save it.
Most home gardeners don't know they are planting invasive even after it is known by the government. Once this is known those selling need to be required to put the information on plant tags. Consumers need to keep plant tags for reference. The signs need to be in public spaces, nurseries. We also need a way to report plants to government resources, many will avoid reporting out of fear or expense. This is an expensive mistake.
How can I identify what type of willow is growing in my yard? Google shirt says black willow. But I'm not sure. It's a very young tree that started growing this year
ID of the many willow species is not easy! We recommend seeking out a guide to willow species that has a dichotomous key to go through the process of keying out the species. We found this one with a web search: gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/dkey/salix/ We doubt the online apps will give reliable results. There are botanists who specialize in willow species ID, because it can be very challenging. Check to see of any Midwestern arboretums, like the Morton Arboretum, offer plant ID services. You should expect to pay for those services, if they are available.
@@purduefnrextensionThank you for your quick response. I was wondering if this is a colorful tree in Fall of year. I live in North Alabama and have what is either Blackjack Oak or Black Oak Arkansas but I'm not positive which just yet. What distinguishes the two from one another?
@@lynnglidewell7367 Blackjack oak is normally a short tree growing on dry or shallow-soil sites. Tends to be branchy. A web search of images will be informative.
Thanks for the info. Videos designed to get the information to the viewer, without a lot of hand waving and time wasting, are hard to find. Thanks for the quality.
Where is the white mulberry native to? We have a white one growing in our yard and it’s growing like a weed and taking over the surrounding trees. I haven’t seen it produce any fruit yet. I am in western Massachusetts btw.
Sources we found indicated China and India is the native range, but it has been intentionally planted around the world for silk production as a food source for silkworms. Once established trees start to produce fruit, birds and other fruit eaters can spread the seeds.
They look like Norway maple also. I have yet to identify one of these in person. I see trees on the side of interstates that I suspect are black maple, but I can never stop and look. I need to grow one so I can learn to recognize it.
American Bittersweet seems to be confused with Oriental Bittersweet as my local greenhouse owner explained that all Bittersweet is invasive and should be eradicated!😢😢 I thought that American Bittersweet was once protected in Indiana, is that true? How can I grow my own American variety?
It is a complicated situation. We have both American and also exotic invasive Asian bittersweet plus hybridization is happening. Source American bittersweet from nurseries specializing in native species. Indiana Native Plant Society is a good start point.
I've been doing some quick research online and came to this video, but i have one question to end all others. Does this tree have seed pods? Because I've found a sweet smelling tree in WA state that looks a lot like this one that i plan on planting.
Probably a chokecherry. Look for lenticels on branch bark, small ovular bumps in bark. Tree actually breathes through them. Probaly going to be VERY tart, but edible if chokecherry. You want to eat many! Dont eat without positive identification. Chokecherry contains cyanide in leaves and seeds, otherwise edible for humans, but lethal for horses, because they eat the seeds and leaves. Makes pretty good jam, which is not so tart as the cherries raw. Great on toast. Look for a good recipe!
