ENTS and Barry:
Really think this is American chestnut, not chinkapin. Leaves are far too long and narrow and the bristles far too pronounced to be chinkapin. Check the leaf back side; if glabrous, then chestnut. Chinkapin is usually pubescent. Chinkapin tends to have inequilateral base while chestnut does not. And the tree looks like the main trunk was killed back by the blight, not necessarily fire (but chinkapin also gets the blight so that is not definitive). In other news, I finally got the Middleton live oak branch "cookie" up to Clemson so we can sand it and do a ring count (I hope)-very dense and definitely hard to read with naked eye. It weighs a lot!!! Vic Shelburne From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barry Caselli Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 5:13 AM To: ENTS Subject: [ENTS] mystery tree ID please ENTS, Hope everyone is enjoying your weekend. I was hiking yesterday and found this tree. I shot a video, just a minute or two in length. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlZfpHpmvjA Thanks, Barry</table --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
