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American Mountain-ash?

[quote="TheBookworm"]You know, that's what I thought at first too when I saw this picture (because I googled the tree I wanted and when I saw this one I thought, well this doens't belong here) but if you look at the overall shape of the arrangement of the berries, you'll see that they're actually not the same. Also, the leaves look a bit different. But close.[/quote

hmm... I see. The berries of a Smooth Sumac have a more conical/vertical shape.

I should be more careful next time.

FawnOnyx wrote:American Mountain-ash?

That's right!

And czery, yup. It kinda looks like those little decorative christmas trees they sell that are just a bunch of little beads...

FawnOnyx wrote:

Redwood?

Yup!

How do you tell the difference between baldcypress and redwood leaves? They look pretty similar.

No idea, perhaps bald cypress leaves are more yellow-green but the biggest thing would be the cones I guess

Haha darn, that's inconvenient. I was maybe thinking that baldcypress leaves are thinner, but that's a very loose generalization.

do you guys know of a good way to tell apart the trees in this genus? Because they all look the same to me.