I am brand new to the forum, and just learning. We have 4 ponds, (each at 2 ac/size), and getting ready to get them in shape. Quick question, I have many of these trees all along the banks of each, (and just the banks, nowhere else). Before I started "shaping", (cutting down), wanted to get these identified.
Not the regular Hackberry or Mesquite species I have seen here in north Texas, if that is what it is.
Thanks Pat,..it maybe a willow. There are about 8-10 on each pond, all are right at the water/bank base (start) and nowhere else. Everyone one of them has grown out and over the water, no matter what side of the bank they are on.
What got me was only one of them is producing the "cottonwood" type seeds, which is a mess needless to say. But only one of them is doing it. Female of the species maybe?
I am so used to the Weeping Willow, but they all have that fissured bark. Why one is flowering, and not the others confused me. They all are about the same size, (20-30 ft)
So glad I found the forum and magazine! Its a BIG help for us "newbys" !
Same willow tree we see all around Lake Sam Rayburn here in East Texas. Fish love to hang out under them. Normally found right at the waters edge in and near.
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My money is on Black Willow. If you cut them off they will re-grow from the stump. You will need to cut it off and then paint the stump with a product like Round up (Glyphosate). Do not dilute it just paint it on the flat stump around the outside edge (bark). The cambium layer just the beneath the bark where the fresh cut is will send it to the roots. Pat is correct on the water usage, you would be amazed at how much of your pond goes through each tree. People mistakenly think shading the water with a tree will save water from evaporation. The trees do whats called transpiration where the water goes through the tree and out the leaves.
