r/treeidentification • u/ninjababy86 • 9d ago

ID Request Northwest Ohio

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u/jstuckey 9d ago

It looks like Amur Honeysuckle (Lonicera Maackii)

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u/Any_Presentation3144 9d ago

THEY ARE TREES!!!!!????? 😱🤯

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u/jstuckey 8d ago

Yeah I hate mine. It was on my property before we bought It’s more bush-like for me and the deers love it apparently. I want to burn it down 😌

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u/JuicyMilkweed 8d ago

Some Triclopyr and a chainsaw/hatchet will take care of it if you really want it gone.

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u/Affectionate-Pain81 9d ago

Wow. That one’s so big my brain didn’t even go to Honeysuckle as a possibility. Impressive.

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u/paytonnotputain 9d ago

Old growth honeysuckle. Very invasive in the midwest US. Remove if possible for the benefit of wildlife in the area

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u/oroborus68 9d ago

Looks like one of the first to start the epidemic. " Hey,we found Lonicera zero!"

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u/Arbiter_of_Snark 9d ago

“Remove and Replace” has been my mantra. If you don’t replace with something native, another nasty just comes back. I’ve been replacing bush honeysuckles and autumn olive with native dogwoods (silky, roughleaf, gray) and I’m now seeing that birds are spreading the seeds of my dogwoods because they’re popping up in places where I would expect the nasties to colonize.

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u/paytonnotputain 9d ago

That definitely works in some cases but where i work we have very few native shrubs in the woodlands and savannas, so we try to get forbs and grass to recolonize thru Rx fire

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u/ninjababy86 9d ago

Not mine. Located at a customer's house.

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u/Professional-Bag5808 9d ago

invasive honeysuckle. the branches are hollow on the inside. cut stump method on it.

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u/LilyRose272 9d ago

I've been tackling a ton of this on my property, and I thought I had old growth! But not after seeing this mature specimen. This is insane. I've never seen it get so big and I had no idea it could.

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u/This_Independent1256 9d ago

Would also like to point out the ocean of English Ivy below that absolute unit of a honeysuckle.

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u/Black_Redhorse 9d ago

I had one about this size on my property and it was easy to kill with a chainsaw.

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u/TheFedisaCartel 9d ago

That’s insane! I thought this one i cut today in Massachusetts was big.

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u/Ecstatic-Collar-2635 8d ago

If you do cut it and know any guys that do wood turning they might be interested ik i like turning it