Ash?

EDIT: actually - not sure now.

Juglans nigra?

That's endured some weed killer?

Thanks for your suggestions!

No weed killer nearby. The Apple ipad lookup feature suggested Black Walnut, but to my knowledge there are no Juglans nigra in the area. Pehaps a sqirrel came across a nut and buried it. The sapling is about 4.5 or 5 ft tall and it is on in a bit of back mulch too close to our leach field, so I will have to move it.

I wonder if I should try to save it and give it away. Won’t I have to wail until it is dormant? And if it is Juglans nigra do you think it will move and survive? I just read that J. nigra has a long tap root.

Juglans nigra = black walnut. :)

They can be susceptible to many types of diseased and vary in individual resistance.

Any nuts forming on trees with identical leaves in the area?

Thanks, Bill. I have no noticed any, but a will ask a long time resident when I get a chance.

Think there is any way to move it?

Juglans cinera (butternut) Looks very similar to it's cousin black walnut.

They are very susceptible to butternut canker which has been destroying those trees for quite some time now. No point doing anything if that's the tree you have which is quite likely it is.

They're (butternut) pretty rare in my state so I don't have a lot of experience with them, actually none.

Thanks, Bill.

Indeed, there is a butternut tree on our road about 1/4 mile away. The squirrels get the nuts. Since the tree is where I cannot have it growwing, I will feel free to just remove it.

You’ve been a big help!

Thanks!

Even if it was J. nigra, it isn't worth much. They pop up all over my yard every year, courtesy of the squirrels. ;-)

I end up mowing or pulling them.

I cut off about 100 black walnut seedlings a season. If you don't get the roots, they'll sprout back.

Butternut tree?!! Wow, does that bring back childhood memories -- and not very good ones for me! We lived in an 1820 farmhouse on 10 acres. A lone butternut tree was located on one side, by the living room. I loathed that tree because of the stickiness of the nuts, the picking up of which was a job we kids had to do. Horrible. And to top that, the long leaflets were sometimes denuded to become a basic switch to be used on recalcitrant children (by my mother, when she was at her wits' end with her five offspring, one or another of whom had tested her last nerve). Those switches packed quite a sting on the backs of our legs... never forgotten, I now realize!

Sorry for the hijack of the original post!

ouch, roxanna!

' If you don't get the roots, they'll sprout back. '

Beng,

After I read this, a little over a week ago. I saw a black walnut about 6" tall growing heartily from one of my mulch rings. I simply pulled it out by the roots with my hand, breaking off a good portion of the tap root and about half of the feeders.

I soon replanted it into a tree band with bark mix.

Soon the top half wilted and died off, I thought it was a goner and cut that top half off..

A couple days ago, here she comes, shooting sprouts all over. Dead? Ha!

I'll see if a new one comes out of the mulch pile where the rest of the tap root is. :-)

Bill, I'm becoming exasperated at all the BWalnut seedlings -- even coming out of the mowed areas all over my lot now. My cats are gone, and at one time they kept the squirrels at bay (one of my cats would hunt and kill them).