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What kind of tree is this?
I was walking in our grove last night and noticed this tree. It smells soooo good!! So I brought a branch back with me to show my hubby. Any idea what kind of tree this is?
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05/31/12, 08:45 AM
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Looks like Autumn Olive? They smell sooooo sweet! And they get little orangish berries you can make jelly out of! They are also very invasive, they spread like wildfire. But the birds love them, too.
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05/31/12, 08:47 AM
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Does it make yellow flowers?
It looks a bit like a Russian Olive from here.
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05/31/12, 08:52 AM
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It hasn't made any flowers yet but I'll be watching it!
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05/31/12, 08:53 AM
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The leaves have a silver cast to them. Sage-y looking.
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05/31/12, 08:54 AM
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Also looks like Bay Leaf Laural ..
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05/31/12, 09:04 AM
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Not knowing anything about trees, I was going to say Olive tree, because I see them in Greece all the time.
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05/31/12, 09:31 AM
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I just looked again and there are some teeny tiny yellow flowers opening up.
A Russian Olive tree? In South Dakota?? 
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05/31/12, 09:33 AM
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yes, they are being planted for wildlife.they do spread.
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05/31/12, 09:36 AM
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Looks like I won't be getting any olives off it though...But it sure does smell good
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05/31/12, 10:21 AM
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I'm thinking it's looking more like the Russian Olive than Bay Laurel...because the leaves are not shiny...they almost look dusty or silvery.
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05/31/12, 10:32 AM
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Russian olive. Commonly used in windbreaks and wildlife planting in the plains states. Robins love the fruit, Loggerhead shrikes like to nest in them.
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05/31/12, 11:14 AM
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Thanks everyone!
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Will it spread you ask,,,,it will take over......
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If you have an iphone, the Smithsonian has made a free app that's called 'Leaf snap'. You just take a pic of a leaf on a white background (I use a blank sheet of printer paper) and the app tells you what kind of tree it is. Very cool!
Don't know if it's on Android or not...
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05/31/12, 12:37 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Panther
If you have an iphone, the Smithsonian has made a free app that's called 'Leaf snap'. You just take a pic of a leaf on a white background (I use a blank sheet of printer paper) and the app tells you what kind of tree it is. Very cool!
Don't know if it's on Android or not...
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That is cool! But I don't even have a cell phone. 
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Originally Posted by Minelson
I just looked again and there are some teeny tiny yellow flowers opening up.
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Yes if you want more go to your State Forestry people to their nursery and order them for next year. Bare root stock cost about $30 a hundred.
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Wait................what?
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Yes if you want more go to your State Forestry people to their nursery and order them for next year. Bare root stock cost about $30 a hundred.
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Maybe. In Wyoming they're a noxious weed and cannot be planted. In Montana, they're not on the noxious weed list yet, but you cannot buy them in this state and are not supposed to plant them here.
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Autumn Olive or Russian Olive are considered an invasive plant in Mich as well and is banned here too. Twenty years ago the DNR recommended we plant a wildlife corridor, about 20 plants. Now the 200 acre farm, much of which is in Conservation Reserve Program, is covered with the nasty stuff. It is growing in any open spot available, ditches, roadsides, fencerows. In order to put the farm back into crops I will have to hire a bulldozer. Spreads by sprouts and by seed from the birds. Do yourself and your neighbors a favor and do not plant the stuff.
Last edited by BetsyK in Mich; 05/31/12 at 04:19 PM.
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