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General Forestry => Tree, Plant and Wood I.D. => Topic started by: Tom on August 17, 2003, 08:23:34 PM

Title: Here's a good one.-Its a PECAN!
Post by: Tom on August 17, 2003, 08:23:34 PM
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Height: 100' (30 m).
Diameter: 3' (0.9 m).
Leaves: pinnately compound; 12-20" (30-51 cm) long; 11-17 slightly sickle-shaped leaflets, 2-7" (5-18 cm) long; long-pointed at tip; finely saw-toothed; short-stalked; hairless or slightly hairy. Yellow-green above, paler beneath; turning yellow in autumn.
Bark: light brown or gray; deeply and irregularly furrowed into narrow forked scaly ridges.
Title: Re: Here's a good one.
Post by: DanG on August 17, 2003, 09:02:15 PM
That's so easy, I ain't even gonna answer it.  Shore makes some pretty wood, though. Handy in the kitchen around Thanksgiving time, iffin I recollects correct. :)
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Post by: Texas Ranger on August 17, 2003, 10:29:20 PM
heartwood tan to chocolate?
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Post by: Tom on August 18, 2003, 08:24:08 AM
This is a gimme for a Texas boy. :D
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Post by: Bro. Noble on August 18, 2003, 11:53:41 AM
I always thought punkins grew on bushes :D   Boy I like punkin pie almost as much as pecan pie.
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Post by: DanG on August 18, 2003, 12:14:46 PM
Noble I'm surprised at you. Punkin grow on vines. Minces grow on trees. We get mincemeat pies from them. Maybe ya wuz thinkin' of rhubarb bushes. ::)
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Post by: Texas Ranger on August 18, 2003, 12:35:26 PM
Aw, nuts, I give up. ???
Title: Re: Here's a good one.
Post by: Tom on August 18, 2003, 01:21:26 PM
Ok, Don. :-/   I'll give another hint.  (sigh!)  
C'mon guys!  This doesn't look anything like a Mince Tree.          :D

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Title: Re: Here's a good one.
Post by: biziedizie on August 18, 2003, 01:32:21 PM
  Is it a pot plant??? .........you know like a plant you put in a pot. ;D


   Steve
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Post by: Jeff on August 18, 2003, 07:16:43 PM
doest that grow the container for the things you pay charlie with when he swamps for ya?
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Post by: Tom on August 18, 2003, 07:28:30 PM
So I've been told, Jeff. :D
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Post by: Texas Ranger on August 19, 2003, 07:37:38 AM
I know!  I know!  It's a kumquat! 8)
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Post by: Texas Ranger on August 19, 2003, 07:38:43 AM
DanG, Jeff, I wish I thought of that one.
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Post by: Jeff on August 19, 2003, 12:57:33 PM
Ya know, I don't think I have ever seen a kumquat. That would make a good I.D.er.
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Post by: Tom on August 19, 2003, 03:21:47 PM
It would take a picture of the fruit and a description so ideal that guessing would be almost out of the question.  I can't seem to grow them in my yard because the tree freezes every year but I have access to some.  Perhaps I can put a kumquat, calamanda or loquat on this year if someone doesn't beat me to it.

Now, let's get back to this Pea Pot tree. :)
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Post by: smwwoody on August 19, 2003, 09:45:26 PM
QuoteHandy in the kitchen around Thanksgiving time. :)

Turkeys don't grow on trees. they just fly down out of them to scare the %&#$%  out of you in the dark

 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

Woody
Title: Re: Here's a good one.
Post by: OneWithWood on August 20, 2003, 10:41:12 AM
That there wouldn't be a nutmeg kinda tree would it?
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Post by: Tom on August 20, 2003, 11:49:51 AM
It's a Pecan!

Some folks call'em Pehcahnz and some call'em Pehcanz.  Some say Peacahn but us non-pretentious folks say Pea Can.  I guess it depends on whether you hold your pinky out when you talk. :D

The Texas State Tree
Title: Re: Here's a good one.-Its a PECAN!
Post by: Texas Ranger on August 20, 2003, 09:24:59 PM
DanG, I shudda got that ::)

Had an aunt from Illinoise come down south for a spell, went to a little old country store for a few things, and asked the clerk for a pee can, he handed her a slop jar.

More like, pacahn.
Title: Re: Here's a good one.-Its a PECAN!
Post by: Bro. Noble on August 21, 2003, 07:18:36 AM
That sounds right to me Don. :)

Tom,
Don't give up on us just cause we had trouble with that one.  We love doing this but that was a hard one :-/  How bout giving us a maple tree next,  I bet we could get that
Title: Re: Here's a good one.-Its a PECAN!
Post by: Texas Ranger on August 21, 2003, 11:06:28 AM
Yeah, what Noble said.  Now I'm purty good on pith ellums.