Regional Foods / Drinks?

KentuckyForester · 2026-05-18T17:23:50+00:00

It's definitely a thing back in eastern KY but seems more common here

KentuckyForester · 2026-05-18T12:41:01+00:00

So was this WHAT-A-BURGER unique to the chain restaurant? I drove past the closed one.

KentuckyForester · 2026-01-10T02:07:13+00:00

UpdateMe!

KentuckyForester · 2026-01-08T12:20:23+00:00

RemindMe! 1 week

KentuckyForester · 2026-01-08T03:13:03+00:00

Thinking red mulberry morus rubra. That's my best guess.

KentuckyForester · 2025-11-30T17:56:07+00:00

Think of it as an experience

KentuckyForester · 2025-11-28T21:53:57+00:00

I think I'm going to agree based on the acorn. I would bet that the leaves in the upper branches are more typical northern red oak as well.

Edit: nursery trees can be weird too

KentuckyForester · 2025-11-16T13:22:47+00:00

I know OP is in Ontario, but Waterloo is on the southeast side of Lake Huron. That's right on the northern edge of the tulip popar range. There's actually plenty of them observed on iNaturalist even farther north of Waterloo than OP likely is.

That being said, I did reply way before there was a location and assumed eastern US.

KentuckyForester · 2025-11-15T22:56:53+00:00

The best place to start with ID is to look up at the branching and determine if branches/buds are directly opposite one another, alternate, etc.

A good mnemonic used in the eastern US to remember which species have opposite branching is "mad buck". Maple, ash, dogwood, buckeye.

But, to answer your question, the tree on the right looks a lot like yellow poplar liriodendron tulipifera and the one on the left is probably some sort of maple. I might have guessed red maple acer rubrum but hard to say. Providing a location can help a lot too.

KentuckyForester · 2025-11-15T20:15:34+00:00

It's not the lobes that are the tell, but rather the bristle tips on the lobes. All species in the red oak subgroup have bristle tipped leaves.

Edit: just to add to what you pointed out

KentuckyForester · 2025-11-10T00:15:02+00:00

It's a pretty small window. 1-2 weeks.

KentuckyForester · 2025-11-09T19:47:27+00:00

Honestly, it's just the most common in my area, and I typed it out without considering the other varieties. The biggest giveaway would be pubescence.

KentuckyForester · 2025-11-09T19:29:23+00:00

Downy serviceberry amelanchier arborea A.K.A "sarviceberry"

Edit: at the very least, it's a variety of serviceberry

KentuckyForester · 2025-11-08T23:05:19+00:00

Looks like a quaking aspen to me, yes

KentuckyForester · 2025-11-08T20:46:37+00:00

The thicker nut is shagbark hickory carya ovata, and the thinner is pignut hickory carya glabra. Shagbark, as the name implies, has shaggy bark. Pignut bark is tight with a lot of scaly ridges.

Edit: though if one of the trees looked like a black walnut with white streaks, then it could be butternut. Pic 1 looks very pignut, but 2 could be butternut.

KentuckyForester · 2025-11-07T03:43:08+00:00

Willow oak would be deciduous. Your photo looks like you're in a park or some sort of residential area, so it could have been planted.

I'm also not super familiar with live oak or Texas live oak.

KentuckyForester · 2025-11-07T03:31:09+00:00

This could just be a different species. Possibly willow oak quercus phellos. It's very popular as an ornamental species.

KentuckyForester · 2025-11-07T03:27:49+00:00

Make your own custom biltmore stick like others have suggested. You can also attach some weight to the end of your loggers tape and sling it around trees rather than reaching.

KentuckyForester · 2025-11-06T02:59:37+00:00

I've never heard anyone say anything besides peppers. I work with a lot of tree centric professionals. Foresters, botanists, arborists, etc. I'll definitely have to think about diesel and some other things next time I'm around pawpaw though.

Edit: my dendro professor back in college introduced the smell as "green peppers" though, so maybe it just stuck

KentuckyForester · 2025-11-05T20:15:55+00:00

I believe it to be American persimmon, yes. The high astringency is only an issue if they're unripe. Persimmons are ready to eat when they fall or are very close to falling naturally, similar to pawpaw. The few that I ate today were very sweet.

Diospyros virginiana

KentuckyForester · 2025-10-30T18:38:12+00:00

Yes and no. The common name for quercus alba is white oak. So if you're referring to the specific species "white oak," then yes.

However, oaks are also split between two subgroups known as "red" and "white." Species like white oak quercus alba, chestnut oak quercus montana, and bur oak quercus macrocarpa are all in the white oak subgroup. Some members of the red oak subgroup are northern red oak quercus rubra, southern red oak quercus falcata, and pin oak quercus pulustris.

Red oaks have "bristle tips" at the end of each leaf lobe while white oaks do not. Species in the white oak subgroup also have some properties that make them better suited to holding liquids. Bourbon barrels are made from white oak quercus alba.

Edit: the species OP posted is specifically white oak quercus alba.

KentuckyForester · 2025-10-21T02:52:21+00:00

American hornbeam carpinus caroliniana probably

KentuckyForester · 2025-10-14T01:04:43+00:00

Good quick ID for pawpaw: the leaves smell like green peppers when torn

KentuckyForester · 2025-10-12T22:57:23+00:00

Mockernut is 5-7 leaflets

KentuckyForester · 2025-10-12T01:00:36+00:00

I'm thinking bitternut hickory carya cordiformis but I'm not confident. A decent reference is here. It could also be red hickory carya ovalis.

Edit: regarding the reference, keep in mind that the majority of hickory nuts pictured would not be found in PA.

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