Identify my tree?!?

[BarkLeafTrees]

Hi all!

I have no idea what this monster tree is but it’s deciduous here in the UK. There’s not much to identify it by, just the bark but I’m sure someone out there knows!

Thanks for the future replies!

Ben

 

[sorce]

It's definitely identifying as a Straight Male.

Welcome to Crazy!

Maybe one of them older, less bushlike, less "burning", burning bushes of the non-biblical variety.

Sorce

 

[sorce]

@Francesco84 blocking the fire exit....
That's a different kind of ignorant!

Forgive me @BarkLeafTrees, I was talking with Francesco about the "ignorant" feeling a tree can give in another thread.

I tend to notice blocked fire exits due to a public safety thing I have.

And that man running away looks funny as hell! "Big ass bloody stick".

Sorce

 

[sorce]

You should do the tictoc where you are there sweeping and then jump up into the sign and drop your broom.

That's what this picture looks like.

Sorce

 

[misfit11]

Not much to go on there. Usually when IDing a tree we need a leaf, flower or fruits. At the very least we need to know if it’s alternate or opposite. What made you decide that you wanted to collect this?

 

[leatherback]

Is it a hawthorn?
Is it a willow?

Noooo It must be an elm!!

But wait for leaves. Then you get a much better idea. No twigs with buds have you?

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Bark and trunk alone is not enough. A twig would help. Twigs, leaves and flowers are needed for a total diagnosis.

There are bare winter twig keys, that can usually get you to species. Leaf & Twig is needed for 95% confidence.

Leaf, twig, bark sample, flowers and seed are required for 100% confidence and to formally describe a new species.

 

[BarkLeafTrees]

Not much to go on there. Usually when IDing a tree we need a leaf, flower or fruits. At the very least we need to know if it’s alternate or opposite. What made you decide that you wanted to collect this?

It was going to be thrown away, just seemed a shame for something so old to be wasted!

 

[leatherback]

Might as well chop it down by half , reduce the roots and pot it up. Wait for spring.

 

[BarkLeafTrees]

A little update on this tree it’s just started pushing some buds out, I left it in a big box with plenty of holes in it.
Anyone have any idea what it could be with a close up of the bark and the bud.

 

[penumbra]

Come back when you have leaves. I am leaning toward ash or elm but it is not possible to say at this stage.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Getting closer .................. to what you need to get an identity.

Leaves please.

But the great news its, it's alive!!!!!

 

[AlainK]

But the great news its, it's alive!!!!!

Yeah, it's aLIVE!!!!!...

Sorry, one of my favourite movies, I couldn't resist....

 

[Shibui]

It is not properly alive until the roots get started again. Lots of collected trees grow new shoots using stored resources from the trunk but if no roots grow they eventually die. I've had collected trunks and cuttings grow long, strong shoots through to mid summer before wilting and eventually dying.
That bud looks very much like and elm and the bark matches so I'm going for an early prediction of elm.
Good news is that elms are quite easy to transplant so it is likely that this one will be OK.

 

[AlainK]

Lots of collected trees grow new shoots using stored resources from the trunk but if no roots grow they eventually die.

Yes, that's right.

Big scots pines for instance can look like they've made it for several months, even developping new candles, and the, they die. This is particularly true with conifers.

If this ... mysterious tree is a deciduous, it has more chance to survive.