Tree of the day

[WDH]

 

[firefighter ontheside]

The squirrels go nuts over this tree.  When the crop is good, my dad will shoot dozens of squirrels trying to defend his trees.

[nativewolf]

I am shocked you'd do this to danny on a monday morning.  Making him see the devil before noon on Monday. Shame shame...

Danny just go out to the storage area and find some nice flat smooth Walnut.  Just look at that nice flat board...forget all about the devil, only good for smoking bbq anyway

[Texas Ranger]

these things drive me nuts

[Woodpecker52]

As in the movie Gold Member todays tree says "Shag me baby"

[caveman]

I am shocked you'd do this to danny on a monday morning. Making him see the devil before noon on Monday.

I did give that some careful consideration.  He was not logged on when I posted the tree of the day this morning but within minutes he replied with an emoji. I am getting kind of close to the bottom of the barrel (old saying).  Kind of surprised that someone from Illinois has not chimed in.

I have not had an opportunity to go to the coast this summer.  Usually, during the summer I spend a lot of time at Anna Maria Island.  Although it is only 50-60 miles from here as the crow flies, there are many trees that grow there that don't here.  The next time I go I will collect some real and photographic dendro samples to share.

[firefighter ontheside]

I will make an effort this week to be able to post a few trees of the day.  I don't have a lot that you haven't done, but maybe a few.  We need someone from the "West" to post something.

[caveman]

Today's tree was Pecan (Carya illinoinensis).  

[Don P]

I've got another on the computer to give the barrel a break. This is a cousin of one from a week or two ago.


 
 

[Texas Ranger]

Think I'm pounding my chest on this one

[caveman]

This one does not appear to be in a swamp.  Thank you for today's tree of the day submission.  I believe this is a picture of Customsawyer getting a swampy cousin of today's tree ready for a quartersawing demonstration at his 2017 project.

 

[Don P]

Yup, this is an upland cousin. It's really not good for a barrel but it was a popular tanbark tree.

[WDH]

We don't see it here in the upper coastal plain.  Have to go to the northern end of the Piedmont or mountains to see it. 

[firefighter ontheside]

Has a somewhat confusing scientific name considering it doesn't grow there, but it does describe where it grows.

[Don P]

Y'all got it, Chestnut oak, Quercus prinus, also goes by quercus montana but I think prinus is preferred, I do see both in gov't publications though. It's also known as sill oak and tanoak. It doesn't have many tyloses blocking the cell lumens so is a "leaky" white, no good for tight cooperage. The wood is coarser grained than white oak but still quite handsome, when you find a tree straight enough to cut. We have one up on the ridge behind the house we use as a landmark, "meet you at the Z tree". Still highly decay resistant, slightly weaker than a true white. Since they have little timber value they are some of the larger trees on our place and some of the oldest. Over the winter I harvested some reds that were around 36"dbh and 80 or so years old. We knocked the top out of a ~16" chestnut oak, it was the granddaddy there, from the ring pattern it had seen 2 forests come and go.

[firefighter ontheside]

What I read is that prinus was the name that included swamp chestnut oak and chestnut oak in the same species.

[btulloh]

Easiest to split for firewood tree if you're going old school.

[Ianab]

I did threaten to throw in some Southern hemisphere oddballs, so here's one.











Small tree, but check the size of the leaves...

[lxskllr]

No idea what that is Ian, but that's a neat looking tree. The shot by the house looks all out of scale due to the leaves. Like a kid mixed play sets to create a house scene  :^D

[firefighter ontheside]

Google is my friend.  Fruit takes a year to ripen?

[doctorb]

Easiest to split for firewood tree if you're going old school.

I am running a drying experiment with chestnut oak.  We originally thought it was red oak but the tree was ID'ed on a separate thread.  I did not find it as easy to split as red oak.  We will complete the drying experiment this December.

http://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=99759.msg1582986#msg1582986

[Ianab]

Google is my friend.  Fruit takes a year to ripen?

The Google-Fu is strong in this one.  :D

[caveman]

I don't know jack about this tree but it somewhat resembles a Fiddle Leaf Fig.  If it is what I think it is, the fruit can attain a weight of 120 lbs.  I thought green oranges were dangerous. (back before citrus greening and rampant development in central Florida the landscape was dominated by citrus.  Green oranges were common projectiles among adolescent combatants).

[Ianab]

If it is what I think it is, the fruit can attain a weight of 120 lbs

Nope, the little green berries are the fruit. That's about as big as they get, and after a year they turn black and the birds eat them. 

[Southside]

Green oranges were common projectiles among adolescent combatants)

We used to make PVC spud shooters growing up, just a tiny squirt of starting fluid and a snap of a grill lighter and you could practically send a potato into orbit.