What is your most DISLIKED tree and why?

clemency said:

When I was in grad school in Florida, my bedroom was under a large live oak. During the fall, squirrels would start eating acorns at the first hint of daylight, dropping many on the (uninsulated, tin) roof over my head, where they'd make a loud ping, then bounce and roll audibly down and off the roof, landing on my car, outside my open window, with another loud ping. THAT was my least favorite tree.

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Chip said:

I’m astounded by the spread of the Bradford pear. I don’t remember seeing it much 30 years ago, and now the woods turn white in March. It used to be the dogwoods that lit up the woods in April, but they’ve been dramatically reduced by fungal infections and other stresses, while the Branfords have truly become invasive. They’re everywhere. Good thing I don’t hate them.

Bamboo is another thing I don’t remember seeing much of, and now I see thick patches of it along rivers, in wooded areas, and in yards. Is bamboo a tree? I would hate it if I had to try and control its spread.

Tamarisk. I think I might hate tamarisk, but we don’t have it in my neck of the woods.

I don’t hate locust trees, either, but I sure hate the thorns!

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Woodpuppy said:

Our first home had a tin roof and between acorns and crab apples it could get pretty exciting. Even had one of those acorns land on your HEAD? It hurts as much as you think it would!

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yknpdlr said:

Poplar trees. They are a dirty tree, with weak branches that easily break and smaller twigs that constantly drop everywhere. Sucker shoots come up all over my lawn. The wood, having no density, weighing almost nothing when dry, is practically useless as a fuel in my wood stove, certainly not worth the effort to cut up and process. Carpenter ants love the stuff because it is soft and easy to chew I guess. Drying and stacking space is better utilized by a higher quality firewood.

Here's a memory.... As a kid we had several larger poplars and even a giant cottonwood or two in the front yard. During WWII, my dad was a rifle test shooter at Remington Arms as new military rifles came off the assembly line. He came home with many boxes of rifle ammunition that was powered by a very corrosive type of gunpowder, never for sale in the civilian market and not useful in modern hunting rifles unless immediately cleaned with running hot water. But very useful for shooting down in segments the tall skinny poplars that could not be cut down as a whole because of nearby power lines and fences. The backdrop behind the trees use roofing company was miles and miles of open river plains and swamp, so there was no danger to anyone beyond. Now that was fun.

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