A big tree

[Rooftree]

I opened up the registry and saw there's one 21 feet in circumference.

Bob, I assume you are referring to the willow oak. Here is that oak as of this evening.

The registry has photos when it was still alive,

 

[smoke_jumper]

Their fingertips are just touching on the other side. We want to go back to measure it.

 

[bobpbx]

Looks like quaking aspen

I recall bringing some leaves home (I think), may get to them tomorrow. Preliminarily, I have a book that matched it up to Populus grandidentata.

 

[bobpbx]

Bob, I assume you are referring to the willow oak. Here is that oak as of this evening.

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The registry has photos when it was still alive,

Yeah, that looks bigger than the one I saw. Quite a tree.

 

[bobpbx]

Their fingertips are just touching on the other side. We want to go back to measure it.
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Are you going with Pitch Pine, John?

 

[bobpbx]

What say ye to this 'un boys.

 

[smoke_jumper]

Are you going with Pitch Pine, John?

That’s what was thinking but I need to get a better look at the needles. It’s size just stood out from everything else in the area.

 

[bobpbx]

Looks like quaking aspen

I dug out the leaves German. I'm going with Populus grandidentata. The young leaves are tomentose beneath, and the Quaking aspen is glaucous beneath with finer marginal teeth.

 

[GermanG]

I dug out the leaves German. I'm going with Populus grandidentata. The young leaves are tomentose beneath, and the Quaking aspen is glaucous beneath with finer marginal teeth.

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Seeing the leaves, I'm sure you are right

 

[RednekF350]

Actually, circumference should be measured at 4.5 feet from the ground (AKA breast height), and on the uphill side if on a slope. It may seem like a nit-picky difference but consistent height is nessesary for comparative measurements.

You beat me too it.

 

[GermanG]

Yeah, between forestry classes and a summer spent measuring every single tree, 6" diameter and larger, in Central Park, NYC (along with a crew of a few others) you tend to remember things like that. My grandkids' birthdates are another matter, to my wife's annoyance.

 

[bobpbx]

Ron, from today in Cape May County. What do you think? I'm thinking very young Q. falcata.

 

[Rooftree]

I would say, Yes. The acorns are small.

 

[c1nj]

While you're working in Cape May, see if you can find a Pond Pine.
I think there are a few at Bennett's bog but I wasn't ever positive.

 

[bobpbx]

While you're working in Cape May, see if you can find a Pond Pine.
I think there are a few at Bennett's bog but I wasn't ever positive.

I'll have to familiarize myself with them more. That is a very squat cone. I will keep an eye out for them.