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I’m in central Louisiana and they do grow in very moist even wet areas! Great for fence posts and like you said, the blooms are amazingly heady!!

Thanks for the awesome informative video! I am in North Texas but I grew up in PA. Going to try growing a few of these on my small land here (4 acres)

Awesome video. Totally informative we use it in our laser engraver to create various shapes and cuttings lettering and so forth

Great video, very helpful!

Where can I get some hackberry seeds, please?

I've heard beech bark is also so smooth as to prevent vining plants from climbing up the trunk

dont forget about the Mast tree Riot, one of the first acts of rebellion by americans against the british colonial rule when they outlawed people from cutting down trees that were greater than a foot in diameter because they were superior for the main ship mast. Folks in new hampshire cut them down anyway and when the sheriff arrested him for it, the towns people attacked the sheriff and sent him out on horseback.

I have a large on in my backyard and boy do the sprouts drive me crazy. Love the tree but the thorny sprouts are EVERYWHERE and impossible to get rid of.

My Dad has us plant loblolly pine all over our property. They have multiplied enough that people in Missouri have come to study them. He was also given the tree farm sign that we have posted. Marshfield, Mo. I'm proud that we helped, even though at the time, it was not a fun chore. Lol

Black cherry has been introduced to poor sites in Denmark, and with a catastrophically result. It grows into a small tree, but produces an enormous amount of berries. Berries that are spread by birds. The only way to kill them is to mulch the area and replant with shading trees - Spruce, firs etc. On the other hand, som danish furniture makers imported black cherry for their products (high end market)

Moosewood Loggers dislike but moose love it!

Ive cut alot of Black Locust for fire wood over the last year and am keeping a few choice pieces to make mallets. Haven't decided what I'll use for handles probably hickory.

Live in N.W. Indiana near the Michigan border. The Hackberry trees around here keep their warty looking bark even at 2 foot in diameter

Turpine aromatherapy

My wife hated them because they spread from the roots, creating thickets. I love them for their value as firewood. Because the wood is so hard they dull chainsaw chains fairly quickly. I have an Oregon professional sharpener, so not a problem for me.

Very good overall, but all the "Um's" were very distracting.

Birch Beer ! Yum. It is non-alcoholic like root beer but better.

Do you teach or recommend any reforesting classes?

The galls on the leaves are induced by a type of True Bug called Hackberry Gall Psyllids (Genus Pachypsylla). I was recently reading up on Psyllids and found them quite interesting. I've become quite fascinated with galls in general.

Great video! There is one of these trees by my house and it’s massive.

It's time for another habichat!

Great video

I've seen a few of these around where I live and now I know more about them, thanks!

Thank you! I moved into this house 11 years ago and have a line of trees on the property border. I've wondered what they were, but never quite have the time to actually look them up. The distinctive underside of the leaves and the berries are an exact match, but I guess I've just never noticed the bark. That tree line is the only place on the property where you'll be covered in little black gnats (omg do they hurt!)

Great for wildlife! I remember learning this on a cold snowy day when Eastern Bluebirds were feasting on berries in January. Thx for featuring this tree.

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Thanks for taking the time to do this teaching. Awesome work.

very good for wood turning

I don’t know if I just have a thing for underdogs or what but I absolutely love these trees. All of our most popular threatened trees. Beech. Elm. Chestnut. They’re my favorite trees and I hope they rebound.

And the fruit is edible and quite tasty!

2:47 -- those are spicebush flowers, not hackberry.

some Celtis species are weedy even in native range

I always love these Tree Talk videos. A nice addition would be a brief mention of their range or a map showing it.

I always enjoy your videos and learning about trees. Thanks for putting in the work teaching me.

Always enjoy your videos. From Nova Scotia.

Was waiting for the native map and you showed it! Being in Maine I was not familiar with this one. A very thorough description, as usual!

Awesome Episode! Super informative and well-explained. Thanks for making these educational videos, not many people realize how important trees are, let alone know their names. Keep it up!

A hawk tuah berry?

Thanks for including this one in your series sir. I have been looking for hackberry trees this year as I just started learning about them. I'm sure I have walked right past them on my many hikes but I am not yet familiar with them. This video was very helpful, thanks again. 🙂

Awesome!

Cut with care. They fight back. Thank you. ;)

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I love the black locusts at my parents house. Been trying to get some established at my house for a while, such a nice tree.

Gotta comment to say thanks for the video, i want to learn about all the conifers of our area

Great video. Can these be transplanted on our property. We have 100 acres loaded with them but I want to use them for landscaping around our cabin.

Love this! In our area (Ont. Canada) we also have non native S. fragilis and or S. alba. Both are prevalent in our area and could be mistaken and used on a restoration site by accident. What do you use as a key feature to differentiate? Im still learning myself, supposedly S. nigra has consistent stipules on the base of the petiole, but its now December and cant go out and look now lol

Is there any way to remove or disguise the ugly scars that someone made in one of my large beech trees? What if I were to remove the bark (ovals with vertical long axes) from the disfigured areas (remove bark from about 1/8 of the tree's circumference)?

Black locust grow very straight, are insects resistant and break down very slowly. So they are used for sill plates on buildings for their amazing longevity.

Many thanks! You've helped me understand the ancient white oak in the wood next to me. It's impressively tall and some 13-feet in diameter, but also showing its years. You've also helped me see how to extend its life and to create some thriving descendants in the forest around it. It's in the middle of a small woodland in an increasingly built-up college town, so the threat of invasives such as laurels, kudzu, English ivy, wisteria and magnolias clutter the wood and make the growth of a new generation of white oaks difficult. I've already transplanted two to sunnier locations and need to do more.

thanks