Maple/Hickory Tree Id

[Locust99]

I was wondering if anyone can help me ID this tree I cut down. I’m thinking some type of maple although the bark is different. I’ll have to check the branching pattern next time I’m there. Or maybe it’s hickory. Here’s a pic of the stump and a round.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Woody5506]

I'm pretty fuzzy on ID'ing hickory but the leaves scattered around look more like a type of hickory than maple.

 

[Kevin Weis]

Red Maple. Kevin

 

[nrford]

Soft Maple for sure.

 

[hickoryhoarder]

Red maple is my guess.

 

[AmbDrvr253]

Just cut some my self. Red maple.

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[Locust99]

Thanks for the help guys, usually I see red maple with rougher bark than this so I was confused. Typically I find it with bark similar to AmbDrvr223’s.

 

[Locust99]

Update.

So the tree is not soft maple. Today I went up there to cut it up, and it has alternate branching . I think It might be beech , here’s pics of the leaves and middle of the trunk

 

[weatherguy]

Beech would have smooth gray bark like an elephant's skin. Not sure what you have there.

 

[Locust99]

Hmmm, I am not sure then. It is very hard to split also which is why I was thinking beech. My 8lb fiskars Isicore maul bounces off this thing.

 

[hickoryhoarder]

Leaves look similar to beech. Gray bark is similar color. Pattern in bark seems unusual for beech.

 

[Granite Statah]

I would also vote for beech. More than half of mine look that these days. I just felled one a couple weeks ago that looks exactly like yours.
There are folks on here who know the name of the critter that gets under the bark, which then causes that blistering in the bark. Makes it tough to carve your honey's initials in the trunk.....

 

[ValleyCottageSplitter]

I've got one load of beech so far and looks very different. Mine had almost no heartwood color. I have acres of red maple behind me. Some have very flaked bark, others have bark about as smooth as beech. The first pics you have looks very similar to red maple which is why it is confusing.

Splitting sounds like beech though and the leaves seem to match. The buds also seem to match: http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=47

If you are sure those are the twigs and leaves from this tree, I'd have to say it's American beech.

 

[Locust99]

I've got one load of beech so far and looks very different. Mine had almost no heartwood color. I have acres of red maple behind me. Some have very flaked bark, others have bark about as smooth as beech. The first pics you have looks very similar to red maple which is why it is confusing.

Splitting sounds like beech though and the leaves seem to match. The buds also seem to match: http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=47

If you are sure those are the twigs and leaves from this tree, I'd have to say it's American beech.

Yeah the twigs were attached to a limb from the tree. I have had some beech splits delivered before that had kind of scaley bark like that, probably from a disease.

I wish it was red maple in a way though, I hurt my hand from the impact of splitting that stuff. I may need to purchase a splitter.

Thanks for the help guys!