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Tree ID
Juan Ant. Espinosa:
It seems like a black locust tree but not surely.
If it is another locust will also make a nice bow. I would take it and if you can make good fotos of leaves, branches and flowers I can tell you.
Eric Krewson:
The bark doesn't look right for black Locust which is deeply furrowed and has no edges lifting.
Muskyman:
Went back out and looked at it again today. Kidder might be right. Its leaves seem to be growing in clusters and not like a blank locust does. It’s hard to see good. It’s tall and straight with no lower limbs, I guess because it’s at the bottom of a hill and surrounded by large trees. It doesn’t have any thorns on it though. If it’s honey locust I’ll still get some good firewood. Kinda bummed because I’d hoped to get some nice black locust bow staves.
TimBo:
The leaves really look like black locust, but the bark looks like maple (or not BL anyway). Are you sure the leaves belong to that trunk and aren't from a neighboring tree?
Zugul:
It cannot be black locust, its compound leaves end with a single leaflet. In the pictures of the foliage you can clearly see the compound leaves end with a cuple of leaves. I hope what I mean is comprehensible, as a non-native english speaker it's quite hard to use botanical specific terms in a clear way to understand :-[
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