AC and hazelnut and silky or gray dogwood

[fingers]

Starting to see the actual fruits of my labor. First photo is hazelnuts. Second photo I think is Allegheny Chinkapin....I planted them and a variety of chestnuts then eventually forgot what each variety was. This tree is smaller with smaller leaves than my other chestnuts planted at the same time, so I'm going with AC unless someone knows otherwise.

Third pic is either gray or silky dogwood....I got 1 of each bareroot in an Arbor Day giveaway but lost the labels and 1 didn't survive. I think I need to wait for it to fruit or wood to mature to figure out which one I have.

 

[Native Hunter]

Looking good. You will be able to tell for sure on the AC once the nuts form. AC will have one nut per burr and chestnuts will have 3 nuts in most burrs.

 

[fingers]

ACs all dropped in past 2 weeks. Chestnuts are starting to open

 

[fingers]

Update on what I thought was AC but now assume I have some weird chestnut that is more shrub like and produces AC size nuts? All the burs are in pairs and they have 3 small nuts in each bur. They aren't the little shriveled underutilized chestnuts I sometimes find, they seem fully formed and grow like this each year in a planting with various other full size chestnut trees. For scale, I included one chestnut from an adjacent tree for reference....that nut would not even fit inside these small burs

 

[Teeder]

Concerning your dogwood:
You can tell the difference by cutting open a stem lengthwise. The inner part of the stem is called the pith. Grey has light brown pith,
Silky has salmon colored pith.