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General Forestry => Tree, Plant and Wood I.D. => Topic started by: DaltonH-WV on December 12, 2018, 08:21:55 AM

Title: ID Help
Post by: DaltonH-WV on December 12, 2018, 08:21:55 AM
Few of these on one part of the property. I am pretty much clueless..

I am located south of Huntington WV, not too far from KY. If it's a regional species or something.

Thanks!



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Title: Re: ID Help
Post by: WDH on December 12, 2018, 08:22:58 AM
Genus Celtis.  In the elm family.  It is hackberry.
Title: Re: ID Help
Post by: DaltonH-WV on December 12, 2018, 08:36:58 AM
That was fast! Thank you! 

Any particular use of it? Quick search said softwood but good for wildlife.

The few of them I have are nearby a water hole that has lots of deer tracks during the year. 
Title: Re: ID Help
Post by: WDH on December 12, 2018, 08:04:34 PM
Beautiful grain but difficult to dry straight and flat because it has spiral grain like all the elms.
Title: Re: ID Help
Post by: KEC on December 12, 2018, 10:15:43 PM
I concur, hackberry. In the seventies I hauled logs for a hardwood mill in Central New York. A tree length hackberry tree came in with a load and nobody could ID it; they got someone from the college of forestry to ID it. It occurs sporadically here, I have come to learn. Kinda middle of the road fuelwood.
Title: Re: ID Help
Post by: Woodpecker52 on December 25, 2018, 10:22:19 PM
birds love the berrys
Title: Re: ID Help
Post by: Jeff on December 25, 2018, 10:25:43 PM
Quote from: KEC on December 12, 2018, 10:15:43 PMKinda middle of the road fuelwood.


And at the top of the list in firewood splitting difficulty!
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