Can anybody identify this tree?

Question

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=rcj8d3&s=4

Deciduous, fall foliage is red-yellow, insignificant yellow flower clusters, pods. Approximately 30ft. high, 20 feet across. Shredding bark. I have asked every nursery in town and don't want to drive all the way out to U.C Davis,

Answer 1

forget the tree ur gorguse wat u doin tomorow night ;}

Answer 2

The tree you are describing sounds to me like a Ginkgo biloba or Maidenhair Tree but it’s hard to tell from the branch you have posted.

Nope - it's not what I thought but I'm still thinking.

I knew if I thought long enough I would get it.

It’s a London Planetree (Platanus x acerifolia) but there are other cultivars!!!!!

That’s it – my brain just started to smoke.

LITTLELEAF LINDEN (Tilia cordata)

I'm done.

Answer 3

can you post a pic

Answer 4

Just email the extension office at UC Davis!  They have volunteers (Master Gardeners) there to help out the community with questions like yours

Answer 5

http://www.arborday.org/trees/whattree/W...

striped maple...

Acer pensylvanicum

Answer 6

They are all close but no. It's maple called box-elder. Acer negundo. Ot gets it's name from the way the wood resembles that of the Boxwood plant.

It's the food of the Harmless Box-Elder Beetle or Maple Bug.

This tree can be confused with Ashes because of the way the leaves are born in rows like the Ash tree not singly like the other Maples.

Answer 7

They look like young leaves to one of the red maple varieties, the basal lobes not developed or absent in the young.  It's not a ginko they are fan shaped, and tulip trees have bifuricated tip.  

And your description of the bark match this in the older age.

http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/com...

I guess it would depend on if the seed pod is a spiky ball as in the London Plaintree or winged seeds.

My other guess is a Mountian or Stripe Maple like http://www.ag.auburn.edu/hort/landscape/... or http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/com...   but darker.  Or a cross of two maples.  

The leaves don't look sharply lobed enough for a scarlet, and not compound like the paper.

Ok, I got it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_buerge... the Trident Maple, with yellow-green flowers and bark that gets "shaggy" exfoliates when it gets old.  http://boroboro.seesaa.net/image/acer_bu...

http://www.hort.net/gallery/view/ace/ace...

It's an Asian specis that was introduced to North America in the late 1800's.

http://www.hort.uconn.edu/Plants/a/acebu...

Being an old import from Asian would also explain why no one there recognizes it.

It's not Box Elder, they have three leaves in a group per leave stem.  And the wood doesn't get shaggy even in the old, until they die then it gets shaggy.  Lots of experience with Box Elder.

Answer 8

I would say that it is either Paper-bark Maple or Red(or Scarlet) Maple.  Identifying a tree is hard!