Round two, what tree be I?

Re: Round two, what tree be I?

I have two. One is the poisonous to animals and yellow flowered. The worst,(best?) at looking like poison ivy is a craggy coated Chinese tree. It won't survive very far north (has to be above -4F). When I saw it it was so similar I thought it was a nursery joke, but it is a true tree.

Re: Round two, what tree be I?

I don't recall any showy flowers of the species I'm thinking about. This species grows in the western half of OK and I'm assuming most of the eastern hardwood forest. In OK we will experience a few days of 0 degrees F/C, : ' > . So, my hunch without looking uo the flowers is this is not the tree I'm thinking of. Will look shortly and correct myself, if indeed yellow flowers are present.

Thanks for playing,

Dale

Re: Edit: Eastern part of OK

Re: Flower color

According to my tree ID book the species in question has the following charactics:

Flowers: several in cluster on slender drooping stalks before leaves in early spring, male and female on different trees, about 3/16" long, with very small yellow green calyx of 5 lobes or sepals.

So, I guess it does have some yellowish flowers, but maybe so small a person of knowledge may only notice it, not me, :'>. Dale

Re: Flower color

I'm out. My two trees were the Liburnum (yellow flowers)and the scary looking Roughbark Maple. Neither seems to be your choice. I'm interested to read what others have in mind.

Re: Gary:

Your not out, your closer than you think.

Hint: this tree grows in wet areas.

Dale

Re: Round two, what tree be I?

I've had to take a second look at young box elder on occasion to be sure that I wasn't stepping into a mess of poison ivy.

Re: :' )

Yep, if in seedling form, I look for the opposite braching and then I'm not positive. If in doubt don't as my mother always taught me.

Some folks around here call the tree a three leaf maple and I recall some folks also calling it an ash-maple or was that maple-ash???

Thanks for playing all. Have a good week-end...Dale

Re: :' )

The tree pictured is a little bigger than a seedling, but you get the picture.

Your question reminded me that when I was a little kid, my mom sent my brother and sister up the road to pick some wild grape leaves off an old one room brick school. She would put a grape leaf on top of each jar of dill pickles when she canned. She thought I was too little to walk along. When they returned, they had a bucket full of poison ivy leaves. You can imagine the rest of the story. Two sick and sorry looking kids in a day or two.

Thanks for sharing, : ' >