Lilacs are not actually trees, they are large shrubs, multi-trunked colony, but that's not a reliable indicator, since you may find them pruned to standards (tree-form).
My info says Iowa so I didn't think I need to put it in every post. The tree ID guides are now giving me catalpa. Whatever that is cause I've never heard of it.
kagari - hope I didn't scare you off with too much information. Just trying to be helpful. Now you not only know that your leaves were from a lilac, you know how to ID several other common trees/ shrubs.
greeting everyone from the new forest southern england... i've just registered needing help to identyfy a tree i saw today... but i have no idea how to paste a photo. anyone help please.
kageri - I can't help too much. The one labeled rhododendron probably is. The one labeled honeysuckle definitely is. I should know the silvery-purple one, but can't come up with it. The one labeled elm or ash isn't elm. Might be ash. The ash trees I'm familiar with don't have serrated leaf edges, but when I looked it up, some do.
paul - you would be better off to start your own thread than tag on someone else's. Posting pictures should be really easy. When you are in the block to type into, to make a post, scroll down. There are buttons for preview, submit, cancel. Scroll down more, below that it says upload photos. There's a box that says filename, and then a browse button. If you hit the browse button, it allows you to go through the files on your computer and find the picture file(s) you want. Select it and click add the file.
We just moved in so i don't know if it flowers. I don't see any seeds. The squirrel population is high and i didnt see seeds on the ground from the maple either. I would think we'd see something of hickory nuts. The ends of some branches we cut down had tiny pieces that probably held seeds and can just be brushed off.
I'm thinking "rhododendron" could be a native azalea. It reminds me of my Swamp azalea.
Their scientific name is in fact, rhododendron, but they are not the ones with big purply pink flowers and evergreen leathery leaves that are "commonly" called "rhododendron" and are planted as landscape shrubs everywhere.
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