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Oxydendrum arboreum
Can be identified in winter by deep furrowed rectangular shapes in bark plus they always tend to lean! Bark is also gray with a reddish tinge. Note- i have seen a botanist struggle in winter with difference between this and a sassafras. Note - around the sourwood tree, you will see fallen sprigs of its flowers in winter. Leaves are alternate. It is renowned for nectar, and for the honey which is produced from i
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