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Please help identify this young tree

9 years ago

I started noticing this small tree growing two years ago. It grows small green gal like pods at the base of the stems protruding from the larger branches. The leaves are soft and translucent. Some leaves are perfectly smooth and are pointed at the end. Other leaves have small ridges towards the top half of the leaf.

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chatterbox3rd
Original Author
9 years ago
Detailed shot of the green pods
chatterbox3rd
Original Author
9 years ago
The leaves
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lucky_p
9 years ago
Looks like Celtis spp. - hackberry or sugarberry - to me.
Believe those 'pods' are galls.
chatterbox3rd
Original Author
9 years ago
Thank you! If you're right then it looks like its a sugarberry.

"Sugarberry commonly has serrated leaf edges only near the tips and occasionally smooth leaf margins, whereas common hackberry is usually serrate all the way down the leaf side, but often not on the base."

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