Final: Cumulative Bark Ids

Front 1

Back 1

tulip-poplar

smooth when young, later developing flat-topped ridges and conspicuous white colored furrows in diamond-shaped patterns

Front 2

Back 2

green ash

interlacing corky ridges forming obvious diamonds

Front 3

Back 3

Carolina laurelcherry

smooth, gray, with horizontal lenticels

Front 4

Back 4

Chinese elm

Front 5

Back 5

sugarberry/Georgia hackberry

gray

smooth, with irregular, prominent, corky outgrowths

sugarberry grows near water, hackberry grows on uplands

Front 6

Back 6

honeylocust

• has branched, heavy thorns
• stout, zigzag
• terminal bud absent
  

Front 7

Back 7

osage-orange

• long, narrow, vertical fissures
• when older, vertical shoots coming out
  

Front 8

Back 8

black cherry

• "burnt corn flake" bark
• black knot fungus
  

Front 9

Back 9

Georgia hackberry

corky outgrowths on bark

Front 10

Back 10

hazel alder

smooth, gray bark with a lumpy texture; covered in tiny lenticels

Front 11

Back 11

river birch

orangey-salmony-colored bark with big flakes

Front 12

Back 12

American hornbeam

bark has a lot of lumps, looks muscle-like/muscular

Front 13

Back 13

eastern hophornbeam

bark looks like shredded wheat

Front 14

Back 14

Japanese honeysuckle

when mature, bark is tan and shreddy

Front 15

Back 15

American elder

prominent lenticels on bark

Front 16

Back 16

mimosa

smooth bark, greenish or gray in color

Front 17

Back 17

kudzu

bark gets to be brown and forms tiny, square-like scales

Front 18

Back 18

black locust

rope-like; when very mature can have very deep fissures

Front 19

Back 19

chinaberry

when bark is mature, vertical fissures and orange on the inside

Front 20

Back 20

common persimmon, lab 6

"zebra bark"

Front 21

Back 21

thorny-olive

• mature bark is grayish while shoots coming off are reddish
• when young, scaly reddish-brown with orange lenticels
  

Front 22

Back 22

autumn-olive

• bark smooth, thin, gray when young...split and furrowed later
• random shoots coming up
  

Front 23

Back 23

sourwood

• thick with deep furrows and scaly ridges that are often broken into recognizable rectangles/blocks (older)
• orange inner bark
• "superman" bark
  

Front 24

Back 24

American beech

smooth, gray bark

Front 25

Back 25

blackgum

bark gray-brown and shallowly, irregularly furrowed, on old stems it can become quite blocky, resembling alligator hide

Front 26

Back 26

serviceberry

dark gray bark often with a twisted look to it

Front 27

Back 27

flowering dogwood

• dark brown, rough, broken into small rectangular plates at early age..."alligator hide bark"
• may look similar to persimmon but persimmon has larger, darker, more deeply fissured plates
  

Front 28

Back 28

American chestnut or Allegheny chinquapin

affected by blight or splitting bark

Front 29

Back 29

royal paulownia

grayish, tannish

has large lenticels

Front 30

Back 30

rusty blackhaw

• finely blocky bark
• similar to dogwood but unlike dogwood it is spongey
  

Front 31

Back 31

sparkleberry

gray and shreddy bark, with red patches on mature

Front 32

Back 32

Elliott's blueberry

mature bark is red and shreddy

Front 33

Back 33

Chickasaw plum

• purplish hue to bark with horizontal lenticels
• lower parts have scaly ridges (like black cherry on top)
  

Front 34

Back 34

black willow

dark shaggy ridges and exfoliating when mature

Front 35

Back 35

sassafras

• cinnamon brown color on inside of bark
• furrowed
  

Front 36

Back 36

muscadine grape

smooth, dark greenish bark later developing vertical grooves

Front 37

Back 37

silky dogwood

• stems frequently (not always) red
• smooth, brown-gray bark (different than flowering); purple/green when younger
  

Front 38

Back 38

eastern hemlock

reddish brown

• plated/flaky/scaly
• pretty flat with wide ridges and furrows
  

Front 39

Back 39

American sycamore

• two different kinds of bark: mottled on bottom, toward top creamy white; older stems gray-brown and scaly
• "camouflage" bark that readily exfoliates
  

Front 40

Back 40

eastern cottonwood

almost looks like sourwood bark but more gray

Front 41

Back 41

horse-sugar

bark grayish-green or brown, developing splits with age

Front 42

Back 42

slippery elm

• dark reddish brown
• not diamond-shaped like American elm
• doesn't have two-toned color like American
  

Front 43

Back 43

chalk maple

bark is smooth and light gray to chalky white on upper trunk but furrowed and dark brown near ground on mature

Front 44

Back 44

mountain-laurel

• thin, dark-brown to red
• shredding and splitting on old stems
  

Front 45

Back 45

black walnut

purplish colored

very ridged and furrowed with rough diamond-shaped pattern

Front 46

Back 46

Carolina silverbell

• reddish to brown with white-yellow streaks on young stems
• smooth, furrowed, and scaly on older trunks
• kind of like osage orange
  

Front 47

Back 47

mock-orange

light brown, coarsely shreddy; papery shreds

Front 48

Back 48

yellow cucumbertree

light gray-brown

flaky, quite soft

Front 49

Back 49

American holly

bark always looks thin, gray, and smooth

Front 50

Back 50

wax-myrtle

thin, smooth, gray-brown bark, covered in tiny lenticels

Front 51

Back 51

slash pine

reddish-brown, platy bark, more scales

Front 52

Back 52

longleaf pine

• orange-brown to gray
  
• scaly, becoming platy when older

Front 53

Back 53

eastern redbud

• initially smooth and brown; later ridged and furrowed to scaly and dark gray
• may have some maroon patches evident and orange in the cracks
  

Front 54

Back 54

honeylocust

• initially, gray-brown to bronze, and smooth with many horizontal lenticels, later breaking into long, narrow, curling plates
• often displaying clusters of large, branched thorns on trunk
  

Front 55

Back 55

boxelder

gray to light brown

• thin with shallow interlacing ridges
  
• young bark is generally warty
  

Front 56

Back 56

royal paulownia

grayish, tannish

has large lenticels

Front 57

Back 57

blackgum

gray-brown

shallowly, irregularly furrowed, on old stems it can become quite blocky, resembling alligator hide

Front 58

Back 58

eastern redcedar

Front 59

Back 59

baldcypress

Front 60

Back 60

eastern redbud

when older, bark is ridged and furrowed to scaly and dark gray, possibly with maroon patches and orange in the cracks

Front 61

Back 61

black locust

gray or light brown

thick and fibrous, heavily ridged and furrowed, resembles a woven rope

Front 62

Back 62

basswood

initially gray-green then gray-brown

• initially smooth, later becoming ridged with long, shallow furrows and flat topped ridges
• very fibrous
  

Front 63

Back 63

American elm

dark, ashy gray

• flat-topped ridges separated by diamond-shaped fissures
• outer bark when sectioned shows distinct, alternating, buff colored and reddish brown patches
• when young it is often quite spongy