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KimmyCoCoPop Taylorsville, KY Sep 24, 2013

Need to know if I should keep it or if it should go...

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shortleaf suburban K.C., MO(Zone 6a) Sep 24, 2013

I know the leaflet count varies on these leaf types. I'm not up on how many is what tree myself, but I'm guessing Pecan, Hickory or Ash, in a forest probably Hickory. Walnut doesn't go that big to that small on the leaflet but to be sure if you crush up a leaf and smell it, it will smell like a walnut.
It appears to be 7 leaflets to me.

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Resin Northumberland, United Kingdom(Zone 9a) Sep 24, 2013

Ditto to a hickory. Not sure which species though.

Resin

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KimmyCoCoPop Taylorsville, KY Sep 24, 2013

Thanks very much....

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ViburnumValley Scott County, KY(Zone 5b) Sep 24, 2013

Hi Kimmy:

Definitely a Hickory (worth keeping), which are not uncommon 'round these parts. I can only see a bud in one of the pictures, which looks like a larger terminal. The big terminal bud plus those remnant rachises (the curled up gray brown midribs) still attached makes me think Shagbark Hickory (Carya ovata).

More pics = good. Especially of the buds and backs of the leaves, since there's not much else to go on - except for mature Hickory trees nearby that could be the parent.

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KimmyCoCoPop Taylorsville, KY Sep 25, 2013

We have many Shagbarks but I thought the leaves were a little different. I will get more pictures. I've never seen those "rachises" on any of the Shagbarks and that threw me too. Thanks very much....kim

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