I'd appreciate it if someone could identify these trees

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  1. mistwalker

    mistwalker Active Member 10 Years

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    I found these while hiking on Walden's Ridge in S.E. Tennessee today, does anyone know for sure what they are. I threw in pics of the trunks and the bark on the tree with the green berries.
     

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    Lila Pereszke Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Looks like Elaeagnus umbellata...
     
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    mistwalker Active Member 10 Years

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    Thank you for your input, I think maybe puting both trees in the one post was a point of confusion so I removed the pics of the second tree, the one with the currently green beeries from the original post and put them in this reply, and added a few of the other tree to the first post. I don't know which you were refering to as being the Autumn Olive because the few pics I found of it looked like neither of them to me. I have more pics and can crop if it would help. Here are the pics of the second tree again.
     

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    Thank you both so much for you help! I can clearly see in those last pics that is the tree, the description of the timing of the blooms works out ok though I thought it more early spring. There are literaly hundreds of those trees in the thickets and along the trails in the area I go hiking in the most, good to know for sure that they are edible. Is Russian/Autumn Olive a more "common" name for the berries? Once again thank you both so much.

    Any ideas as to the identification of that second tree? The berries remind me of green Dogwood Berries..., but it is definitely not a Dogwood tree.
     
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    mistwalker, sorry cannot help with 2nd set of pics.Praps a close up of the berries and leaves will help someone.
    Do go back to the same area in spring, the scent from the flowers of the Elaeagnus umbellata is just amazing.
     
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    Michael F Paragon of Plants Forums Moderator 10 Years

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    It's not an accurate one (it isn't an olive Olea), so best not used. Better known as Japanese Silverberry or Japanese Oleaster.
    Ditto to Luddite on not enough detail visible in the pics. I was wondering about perhaps one of the larger Vaccinium species, but not at all certain on that.
     
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    Thank you for your input.

    And thank you Michael

    Sorry but these are the best I can do untill next weekend when I can go up there for more pics. Thank you..., I hike that area at least three times a season and have for years...., just now getting around to identifying some things,
     

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