Another ID tree challenge

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Another ID challenge, which by design won't be the easiest. It's common locally in my lower mesic area, but won't be found higher up among the oaks & hickories. Notice the multiple trunks, which show it's a good "sprouter" from a previously cut stump -- a number nearby have 3 or even 4 trunks. The bark is rather light colored as seen. I'll give clues that it's neither an oak, maple, or tuliptree.

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bengz6westmd
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Ding. Ding. arbordave gets it. The forests around here were logged maybe 60 yrs ago, and every basswood resprouted with at least 2 to sometimes 4 trunks. One just across my border stream died for some reason when I was first here, but 22 yrs later there are 4 slender sprouts from its base in rather deep shade that are now 50 ft tall. I posted a pic here some time ago of the dead original trunk that had been ravaged by a piliated woodpecker.

PS The one pictured above has 3 trunks, a shaded one just off to the right.

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arbordave (SE MI)
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My first guess would be basswood.
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L Clark (zone 4 WY)
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Sycamore
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maackia
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Sugarberry (Celtis)
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L Clark (zone 4 WY)
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Are linden in the wild covered in aphids like they are in civilization? Every one I’ve seen is sticky from aphids
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bengz6westmd
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L Clark, I have indeed noticed aphid infestations on the much planted European little-leaf lindens, but I really haven't seen them on the wild/native northern basswoods here.
arbordave (SE MI)
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beng - I'm curious if you have any White Basswoods (Tilia americana var heterophylla) in your area? Its native range includes western MD. I've come across just a few planted here in my area. Photos of the foliage on one of them just a couple miles from my house:
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arbordave (SE MI)
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Tilia americana var. heterophylla native range map:
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bengz6westmd
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Arbordave, when I lived in southwest VA, the northern basswood is replaced by the white basswood. It's similar to the the buckeyes having an Ohio (northern) buckeye and a southern Appalachian form, the yellow buckeye. The white basswood became obvious when the white leaf-undersides flagged in the wind, like a silver maple.

And just today in downtown Cumberland MD, I got an up-close look of a very large and beautiful European little-leaf linden in a churchyard. Didn't have a camera, but here's a long-distance street view dated in the spring.