These two sticks look a lot alike - am uncertain of the specie - just asking does it also appear to you they are perhaps the same specie, stick "b" is older. Both of them have similar "horizontal" markings - going around the branch in similar style.
Awfully hard to tell from a small pic of the trees bark.
I went out and looked at some of the pieces I have drying in the garage.
To me it doesn't look like black cherry, red oak, shagbark hickory, lodge pole pine or aspen. Closest pieces I have with similar appearance are silver maple (doubtful) and eastern cottonwood.
I have seen those horizontal bands on the bark of some choke berry bushes I have growing on my property. Maybe that's it?
Thanks for the topic norson. I have now discovered that I have been mistakenly calling my shrubby trees choke berry when in fact they are choke cherry! As far as where the wood came from the USDA web site shows it occurs naturally in TN.
It's really hard to accurately identify trees without leaves or at least some kind of bud forming. Call it a cherry of some sort as a best bet for now and if your persistent try and check in the spring/summer.
Hmm, neither pin or choke cherry have a natural range in Tenn., but both can grow there. At the least, I'd have to say some kind of cherry. My grand mother had a cherry tree in her garden, and I spent many hours staring at its branches when I was little.
The weather is despicable where I am just now, so I spent some time googling around. Branch "B" might be something called "autumn olive." The pictures I find show a similar pattern for the bark, tho' there are not spots of red like in the pic, but rusty brown. It has berries that look a little like small cherries, but are longer, and more olive shaped. Also found in Tenn., but originally from Japan.
I would say its some sort of cherry , have checked it out against a flowering cherry at friends house and it looks the same
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