Pond Boss Forums AQUATIC VEGETATION Identifying plants Tree identification help

So, I went to my land yesterday, crumpled up a leaf and smelled it, had a pretty strong smell. What it smelled like, I have no idea...

One thing I noticed, these things seem to grow a couple different ways. In some cases they look like trees with a single trunk, and almost 15ft tall, in other cases they grow in bunches with many shoots and only seem to be about 10ft tall.

When they grow like a tree, the leaves are about 3 inches long, when they grow like a bush, the leaves are only about 1.5 inches long.

I cut a 15 footer down yesterday with a chainsaw to count rings, it was only 6 years old @ 15ft tall.

I've used a bunch of online tree identification tools, I'm not finding exactly what I have.