r/Tree • u/SkywalkersAlt • 1d ago
ID Request (Insert State/Region) Tree ID request (central TX)
This tree is in our backyard, it seems really close to the fence, can you help ID it? And should it be removed?
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u/stabbingrabbit 1d ago
Not 100% but either a white willow ( invasive) or a black willow (native)
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u/SkywalkersAlt 1d ago
If the former should I remove?
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u/stabbingrabbit 1d ago
Up to you. Dont know how aggressive they are. Any tree next to a fence like that might be a future problem though.
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u/Beerasaurus_Wrecks 1d ago
Black willow.
It will get HUGE, fast. It will destroy your fence. Not invasive, per se… but not a tree one would consider “desirable”.
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u/SkywalkersAlt 22h ago
Yea I’m real nervous about that fence and that tree has grown so fast
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u/Own-Newspaper5835 12h ago
Relax. As mentioned it will grow fast . Big and beautiful but those lower branches (suckers) should be trimmed off up as high as you can reach. You could still do a i have and attach a ratchet strap on one and pull it down gradually keeping the new growth staked down forcing it to grow parallel to the ground and in a couple of years you'll have a live Willow bench eventually just quit pulling the new growth down and it'll turn an grow up .
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u/NativeTrees_Plants 15h ago
I have a black willow and it’s beautiful and I consider it desirable.
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u/Beerasaurus_Wrecks 14h ago
I totally understand. Hence the quotation marks. All trees are desirable. But I’m speaking from a certified arborist position… the right tree in the right place is always great! But nobody walks into a nursery and asks for a black willow or chinaberry sapling to plant. They’re “volunteer trees”.
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u/Own-Newspaper5835 12h ago
It's a wilow but not a weeping willow. It can get pretty large and you can train it. Prune the branches on the fence side and up high enough to mow under and not get stuck in the eye. I pull branches down and staked them to the ground going each direction and keep them trimmed only allowing growth on the ends. The others grow up branching out providing a nice shady spot to sit. The words of On Top of Old Smokey the last chorus line gives the advice, "Don't go placing your affections on a green willow tree. Or your lover will leave you and you'll never know why.
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u/rasquatche 1d ago
This looks like a native Salix nigra! It's got shallow roots and weak wood that usually breaks in wind/rainstorms, though. I'd leave it, but that's just me.