Mystery Tree Challenge - Arbor Day Foundation

You have a LINDEN or BASSWOOD. These tall, stately
trees make attractive street trees. The lightweight, soft
wood is often used for carving.
(Your linden sample is just one example of a wide variety of trees that
have simple, alternate, non-lobed leaves with toothed (jagged edge)
margins. Some of these trees include chestnut, holly, beech, certain
oaks, aspen, linden, poplar, mulberry, hackberry, linden, alder, many elm
species, birch, willow, many fruit trees, crabapple, hornbeam and
hophornbeam...to name just a few.)
Please take your tree sample to your teacher and he/she will
let you know if you have correctly identified your mystery
tree.