Help identifying

[Eric Rorabaugh]

Had a buddy ask me today about this. Looks like hemlock but never seen one grow like this. Could be where it was pruned throughout the years. He wondered if it was hemlock or yew.

@Mr. Peet

 

[2feathers Creative Making]

I have never seen one live but you sure that's not a dawn redwood? They grow weird.

 

[Eric Rorabaugh]

No idea, never seen one. This is in a yard in town so probably planted as ornamental.

 

[Eric Rorabaugh]

Just looked at dawn redwood. Not it Needles are pinnate on them

 

[2feathers Creative Making]

Dawn redwood is an ornamental

 

[2feathers Creative Making]

Ok. Just a guess.

@Mike1950 do you recognize?

 

[Mike1950]

Ok. Just a guess.

@Mike1950 do you recognize?

Nope. Does not look like mine

 

[trc65]

Think it's a yew. Here is a short ID key on fir, hemlock and yew.

Fir, Hemlock, Yew (X)

uptreeid.com

 

[Mr. Peet]

Yew otta no bye now...

Looks Japanese but likely a hybrid.

 

[Eric Rorabaugh]

Got it. Thanks.

 

[Lou Currier]

That's one wild a$$ tree

 

[Nature Man]

My best guess is Yew. I've seen a lot of Hemlock in my earlier years, and while it is similar, I do believe this is not Hemlock. Chuck

 

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

Looks like yew to me... A bowyer would know...

Alan

 

[Byron Barker]

Bowyer here. That’s an ornamental species of yew I believe. Possibly Irish or a hybrid. There are LOADS of good staves in there too. If you’d like to remove a limb to test the theory, I’d buy it.