HOW TO IDENTIFY TREES IN WINTER // Tree identification using their bark 

Where I grew up there were nine acres of really old trees. They formed a triangle and on one side there was a road with a creek beside it. It was all hilly ground and the only flat area was down by the road and the creek. In that location there were very large sycamores. The SMALLEST was ten feet in circumference. The largest, which was long dead, was over sixteen feet. There were a couple of huge oaks but it was mainly sycamore. I wandered those woods nearly every day and spent many days playing in that creek. I called that area my valley of giants. Years later, I still visit my old friends when I go see my mom. Most of the woods are gone now, the landlord clear cut most of them but many of the giants in my valley survived the carnage. Those sights and sounds remind me of simpler days and times, when my escape from an alcoholic and violent father was found under the canopy of trees and messing around in that little creek that was just barely too wide to jump across. Tennessee tree lover. Not far from the Smokey's.

Sweet video. I love identifying trees the last couple of years. Thanks for sharing!

I am so stoked I found your channel. This is fantastic

My childhood forest. I spent so much time there in the 60s with my friend John Lynch (RIP). Great memories.

Excellent video, thank you!

Great video! Thanks.

Great video on identifying trees. And I love the bonus shots of the beautiful scenery at Reinstein Woods.

Excellent video, very helpful. Thanks for sharing.

Great video, man. Nice walkthrough and plenty of clear info

Excellent content. Thanks for sharing!

Learned so much! Thank you!

Great info. Thank you!

love the channel!

Nice video! Winter tese ID is fun and a great excuse to get outdoors!

Interesting and informative!

Enjoyable video. Liked the learning experience wrapped with the scenery and descriptive visual language. Thank you

Thanks for the video

Thank you for this informative video. Much appreciated, I learned a lot.

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks a lot for the great video.

You did a great job with your video, also your lot is beautiful with the creek in the background!

Identifying trees can be a great way to enhance your hike. Using the bark to identify trees can be tricky, but there are some species that have very distinctive bark and can be easily ID'ed. Check out our More Winter Tree ID Video (Part 2): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XeUZ4BU8wQk.html

Loved your tour and I'd tutorial; thank you What I found so very interesting was how trees differ so very much between continents. Although I could identify the beech almost immediately, I would never have guessed the cherry you picked out as anything like those we have here in England. Loved the Shaggy barked Hickory.

Great video dude

thanks dude !!

wow that brothers from another mother, you rarely see such seperate species coliving so tighly like that as opposed to clear competition

Beech is actually a very late successional tree. They're extremely shade tolerant and the pioneer species tend to be shade intolerant. Also the alternate/opposite configuration you're referring to has to do with the way that the leaves present themselves along the twig, not the way the twig diverges from the branch, so you would need to examine the position on the buds to determine if its configuration is alternate or opposite. As well, butternut trees also have an opposite configuration

This was great, Thanks!

Thank you, very useful information I can use on my walk with my dogs. 👍🖖

Thanks for the guide recs. I also like Mark Mikolas' "Beginners guide to recognizing trees of the northeast"

Love the old growth at Reinstein and I love learning tree identification! Hope to meet up with you on one of the winter challenge hikes Mike.

Thanks for making this! I'd love an OC WNY tree cheat sheet to bring on hikes!

Thanks

that docs tackle hats sick 🤙lol

The wood was given to me by my Handyman friend . The customer did not know what it was and he had no clue , it was winter I did not see any leaves. It was located about 2o miles south of Cleveland Oh. off Lake Erie. It was out of an area where homes were built 80 years ago off a road 200ft back in a wooded area ..The bark was scaly orange brown ,when it split it tore apart like pine. The weight was like lead, very noticeable. I have handled a lot of wood since 1986 but nothing like this before or after. The heat off of it was great and burning time was extremely long . Thanks for the books to reference I will try to pick up on them asap.

I live in the city but grew up in a rural area . I have been burning wood in a wood furnace since 1986 .I find wood on tree lawns and along the roadside and try to second guess what some of it is. I know oak, maple , sycamore, poplar , cherry, apple, and stay away from pine and willow . There have been some woods that have stumped me . Thanks for recommending the two books.

nice video bud!

Good job from your Ontario neighbor. Those D shaped holes on the EAB infected ash tree are from where the borer exited, not entered.

With the exception of Shagbark, I am having a hard time identifying hickories in the winter.

You in wv? If not we have an 18 mile creek in buffalo wv lol I fish there as well

I wonder if you could sort these by which trees use more water or less water? Is there something like that somewhere here? It would help people who are in different areas figure out which kinds could live in their areas easier.

You have twigs and buds to go by too, btw. Not just bark. And even seeds for certain trees.

By the way I am from South Louisiana, Cajun country. Not sure if the tree in question is native to these parts.

Absolutely loved the channel man, I need help identifying something a very specific Alabama tree, but the problem is, We have a abnormal bunch naturally occurring sir here in northern Alabama where I'm at I'm trying to figure out these European trees we have England's & Germans Elm trees & England Oaks & England Pin trees & American Yellow orange cherry pin & dog wood tree to and European Hickory cherry & oaks that look identical to them by there barks and some kind of Hickory that looks like a white or red oak by it's bark that I need DESPERATE HELP please to identify! Like i said ABNORMAL natural growing & can't explain it ! Respectfully speaking Sir any chance I could even get a guide to know what I'm looking at to find a hickory tree by it's bark alone or wood without the bark alone Sir?

I have a few pieces of tree trunk that my nephew gave me after cutting, however he does not remember what it looks like, can anyone help. In my 66 years of life I've never seen so much beauty then these pieces nor how hard it is, I tried cutting through it but took me awhile, no leaves to be found. The bark is dark but could be discolored but inside I hit gold lol only in color, it's a shinny gold and red as well the gold appears to be the heart ( center of the tree.

There are 4 trees in North America that exhibit opposing branches MAD only covers 3. Add Chestnut to your list.

id

What happened to your video last night? Did you have a problem with the upload

Mine works too. I used the Woodglut plans and performed it without any problems.

MAD B ... Buckeye is another..

Our ashes are all gone, been gone

video starts at 1:33. Very good bark ID video but very poor explanation of Ash Borer Beatle destruction. They don't just "make holes", they go in and the larva makes tracks under the bark during the fall and winter and literally peel the bark from the trunk.

Largest organism in the world has been discovered as a mushroom mycelium colony. Sorry to correct you

It's "kind of neat to see" diseased off-shoots?