anybody have any "boxwood" or know anything about it?

[WDH]

Arborescent?

Excellent!!

[firefighter ontheside]

Just the other day a friend said he had some boxwood lumber.  I said isn't that a bush.  I have several of them in front of my house.  Don't think I'd get much lumber from them.  The stems are only about 1 inch thick.

[r.man]

In my area of Ontario basswood was also called boxwood. Light and easy to split with a nice straight grain. Don't know any latin and no offence but if I thought something was treelike I would call it treelike. Plus I can't pronounce that other word. Tilia americana is the scientific name according to my wife's reference book by Linda Kershaw.

[beenthere]

Sometimes general nicknames come up, such as tielogs going to a tie plant, palletwood going to a pallet plant, and all wood destined for a box plant, walla... it is called boxwood... regardless what the species might be. ;)

And yes, sometimes tielogs go to a sawmill, and palletwood goes to a firewood operation, and boxwood ends up going for pulp.  Names come easy as long as all understand what is meant.

[phinds]

In my area of Ontario basswood was also called boxwood. Light and easy to split with a nice straight grain. Don't know any latin and no offence but if I thought something was treelike I would call it treelike. Plus I can't pronounce that other word. Tilia americana is the scientific name according to my wife's reference book by Linda Kershaw.

Yeah, when I first started my wood site, I thought basswood and boxwood were the same thing and only later found out otherwise.

[WDH]

A lot of common names that people use are wrong.  Pin oak in the Deep South is an example.