I need some help with this >>Have been told that this is a very old tree and the elderly lady that lived on this spot before says she had it planted in 1956,now my nephew said it was mostly dead but after pruning looks like it is going to make it ..It is in Central Louisiana have 2 more pix if they would be helpfull
It looks like a smoke tree to me.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/197808/
Kinda what I was thinking but could not remember what the leaves looked like on a Smoke Tree
