Sugar maple
Usually standing at 80 feet, the sugar maple often supplies sap for maple syrup. They have a rough and bumpy texture to their bark. Looking at the bark on more likely older trees, its positioning somewhat resembles scales. Younger sugar maples have their bark patterned like a grid of upside-down y’s.
Eastern hemlock
Hemlocks’ needles are small and tightly packed together.They are also quite delicate and painless to touch.If you grind a small branch it creates a pleasant yet overbearing aroma, almost too pine-like.Eastern hemlocks max growth height is between 60 and 70 feet. It has similar bark to an older sugar maple; rough and bumpy arranged like scales.
American beech
The American beech was pretty challenging to identify. I don’t know much about how to identify trees and leaf patterns by telling if they are opposite or alternate. It was also hard to pin down the picture. The leaves look almost like the shape of an eye, except that they have little teeth on the ends/sides of the leaf. The buds of the American beech are pointy and have a similar scale-like arrangement to a pine cone.
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