i need help to id this tree....

Bc4abc

5 year old buck +
this is stuff is on a hill side, near where I live, very thick, keeping leaves on , looks like a good bedding area ...most of it between 2 ft tall and 20 ft tall id say...has red berries

id like to know what it is ....... possible bedding option????

Thanks in advance
 

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Looks like bush honeysuckle or autumn olive. Probably a cancer that there is no cure for unless your relentless on this stuff. Probably have to learn to live with it. I don’t have any on my land yet but I bet deer will bed in it and use it for security cover.
 
Looks like honeysuckle....not good stuff.
 
I think Chicken and Maddog have pretty well narrowed it down. As maddog says, you will probably have to live with it. If you concentrate on just controlling it where ever you find a better tree or scrub struggling to survive, then you don’t have to lose your mind. Over time, shade will be the best control. Of the two, autumn olive is really not too bad as invasives go since the berries are editable by humans, and both birds and bears just love them. Of course, first confirm what you have before making a pie of them.

Below, Autumn olive, your mystery scrub, and honeysuckle. Good luck!
https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/autumn olive, mystery schrub, honeysuckle.JPG
 
My vote is for honeysuckle too.

It is an invasive non native, I've got it at my little woods. It does have a value as wildlife food, I don't get to worried about it at my small place it's surrounded by crop fields and is mostly just in the woods that is crazy thick hardwoods.
I haven't let it get any type of start on my bigger farm it has a lot of pasture that I don't want it in. I cut it low in spring if any pops up and squirt it with Crossbow, I've only had to do one cleanout of it wasn't much there to begin with.
 
For now leave it be.....if it is bush honeysuckle here are a few additional things to look for come spring to confirm it.
#1 - cut a mature stem about the diameter of your finger or smaller.....if it is hollow - good chance it is bush honeysuckle.
#2 - come spring if it is one of the very first things to green up - good chance it is bush honeysuckle
#3 - come late spring if it produces a white or yellow flower that looks like honeysuckle - good chance it's bush honeysuckle.
#4 - the red berries are also a clue, but not a death sentence.....

I have it on my place....more of it than I care for (the neighbors woods is full of it). It's like eating an elephant.....you just have to focus on one bite at a time. I cut mine when I can find it and treat the stumps and cut stems with tordon. I have not had luck truly killing it will applying gly to the leaves. it's pretty stout stuff and if you don't kill it entirely it will grow back. Dense shade is the only thing I have seen to naturally control it.

It only sort of provides cover. Yes it holds it leaves.....but typically nothing and I mean NOTHING grows under it. So at actual ground level you tend to have almost bare dirt. The roots actually produce a toxin to weaken competition. I have never seen deer browse it either or any sings of browsing. I literally take a weekend every once in a while and hunt it! I also carry flagging tape and will mark plants I find when I don't have time to deal with it right away. Over time you will be able to spot it from a mile away! I tend to hunt it and mushroom hunt at the same time.....and I find far more JBH than shrooms!!!
 
Looks like bush honeysuckle to me. Nothing a little triclopyr and diesel can’t fix.


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