Hackberry?

[Michael Weber]

"Can't wait to get home after work and give it a quick taste..."

Oooo, I'd be careful there. That tree could also be a "deathberry" which looks just like hackberry but the sap of which is instantly fatal....

April Fools

[Brad Moser]

"Witches brooms" on hackberry trees are caused by a combination of a mite and a fungus. Your hackberry doesnt appear to be infected.

[Dan Gill]

Looks like the consensus is hackberry. Can't wait to get home after work and give it a quick taste

Mom! That weird neighbor is licking his tree again!

[Dennis Ford]

If it is hackberry, it is good wood for turning. Hackberry spalts very easily which can be pretty in a turning. Probably not worth much as lumber.

[Eric Sayre]

I cut and dried some hackberry lumber. I use it where most people use poplar.

Most of mine developed blue-grey spots while drying. Some kind of fungus that is common on drying hackberry. I got most of it off when I planed the lumber after it dried.