Can anyone help me identify this tree?

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can anyone identify this tree? (See pic attached).

Every time I go past it, it has a strange mouldy smell. It’s not like any mould I have smelt before!

This is the same smell in my shed, I am wondering if it’s made of the same wood and growing the same mould.

Anyone know how to treat this type of mould in my shed?

Identification of this tree would be easier with a close up of some of the leaves on the ground which seem to have fallen from it, (unless they’ve actually fallen from another tree in which case they won’t be useful), and of the end of one of the branches showing the buds.

Your shed is almost certainly a treated softwood (conifer). This tree isn’t a conifer. Unless it’s completely dead, when it might be.

Looks like Eucalyptus?

I thought that, but the leaves on the ground don’t, and it looks, not so much the thin peeling bark of Eucalyptus, but the much thicker peeling of a completely dead tree.

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Your tree is possibly a Carya ovata or more commonly known as shagbark hickory.

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That’s an impressive id on so little information. What are the give-away signs that led you to that?

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Thank you!

I hope your autumn 🍂 is going well. It’s not been very autumnal here for much leaf peeping or gardening. The weather here has been mainly cloudy, wet and damp.

It is easy to think of the tree in question as being a Eucalyptus tree due to the way it sheds its bark in great long strips. However the clue in this case is that grey bark is not common to Eucalyptus trees. The leaves on the ground also did also not point to Eucalyptus being golden in colour.

Having a number of tree books and spend many years admiring these great wonders of nature helps in tree identification from even the smallest clues.

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However the clue in this case is that grey bark is not common to Eucalyptus trees

Oh yes it is. There's a huge one in a garden not all that far from my house, and its most distinguishing and identifying feature is its grey trunk. I know of another mature eucalyptus a few miles away, and that too has grey bark.

Indeed. Grey bark is a stand out feature of many species of Eucalyptus, as anyone who has walked through the Eucalyptus plantations around can attest.

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