“A tree is a tree - how many more do you need to look at?”

Ronald Reagan, former U.S. President 

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Unidentified trees in Coppell, Texas - Northeastern TX; located in a popular city park near a canal and flood zone. Other similar trees nearby do not have such pronounced zigzag protrusions, possibly because they are younger, that’s only a guess. The first photo shows bark with the most exaggerated texture, almost tropical looking.

The second photo I think might be Hackberry, and it also has a range of nodule shapes…some layered and worty, others varying to smooth with short thorns on them. They are all growing in the same stand of forest, so I wonder if these are all interbreeding species of Hackberry? 

 Any guesses or positive identification?

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Eastern Cottonwood Unidentified Growth

Growing alongside the Ottawa River, Ontario, Canada, all of the branches ended with these oddly shaped, hard, glossy growths on Eastern Cottonwood, about 3 x 3 inches. If they appeared more randomly on the branches I would suspect insect galls for sure, but they all look like they belong there, and they are all basically uniform in shape and size. Are they seed heads? I don’t think so. I’ve looked up ID in many different websites and have not found the ID .

Flowers, fruit, seeds? Does anyone know what these are?

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