What tree am I ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
What is the prize?
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Here is a bigger image to help out.
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Even more easier with the tree, no ??? ??? ??? ;D
some sort of willow. :D I was going to guess hemlock. :D :D
Mesquite?
Not willow, not hemlock.
Mesquite is a relative, big clue. ::) 8) 8) 8)
Huisach? sp
It takes a Texan to get closer.... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Not Huische, but very, well pretty close.
It is from Redington, Arizona..... new clue :snowball:
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Ebenopsis ebano.
Less close, same family 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Honey mesquite?
Not any Prosopis. I have never seen a mesquite in the red range. Usually tan when fresh cut. :snowball: :snowball: :snowball: :snowball: :snowball: ;D
Next hint: native to SW US and northern Mexico, usually not this big ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :snowball:
Quote from: mesquite buckeye on January 09, 2013, 09:09:47 PM
What tree am I ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
I know, I know! You're a mesquite buckeye! ;D
Just kidding. I don't know many desert plants very well. Is it some kind of acacia?
Quote from: Dodgy Loner on January 10, 2013, 03:57:36 PM
Quote from: mesquite buckeye on January 09, 2013, 09:09:47 PM
What tree am I ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
I know, I know! You're a mesquite buckeye! ;D
Very cute, but wrong. :D :D :D :D 8) 8) 8)
Quote from: Dodgy Loner on January 10, 2013, 04:00:27 PM
Just kidding. I don't know many desert plants very well. Is it some kind of acacia?
Yes is is. Which one ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
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Well, since you said they don't normally get big, I'll go with smallii
Then that would be Huisache, which it isn't. 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) :snowball:
There aren't that many Acacias here, and less that get at all big.
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One more clue for the forest pathologist types.
These trees normally are hollow by the time they reach maturity, usually covered with conks. 8)
Devils claw?
The wood looks like memosa.
Quote from: LeeB on January 10, 2013, 06:57:54 PM
Devils claw?
The wood looks like memosa.
Nope. Closer on the first try ;D
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New clue:
The wood in the past has been used to make doubletrees because of its strength. :P :-X
Another clue: the wood from a related species is said to have been used to construct the Ark of the Covenant.
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If I remember my "Evan Almighty" correctly, it's gopher wood. :D
Quote from: Dave Shepard on January 10, 2013, 08:44:43 PM
If I remember my "Evan Almighty" correctly, it's gopher wood. :D
shittim wood, which is an acacia.
Now the question is which acacia.
I hate to just straight up give it away :( :( ;D :-X
Catclaw acacia or Devil's Claw.
Guajillo
Another good try, but that one, Acacia berlandieri, doesn't make it this far west. ;D ;D ;D
How big does it get for you? I've never seen that one bigger than a few inches thick. ??? ??? ???
I don't even know that I've ever seen one. Just hoping to get lucky. :D
Quote from: LeeB on January 10, 2013, 09:15:50 PM
I don't even know that I've ever seen one. Just hoping to get lucky. :D
South Texas into NE Mexico. :P
It's much easier if you already know the answer. :snowball::P
It sliced up my arms when we got it. Some of the prettiest wood I've seen. Pinky red with lots of sheen.
This one probably would have been like the state champion big tree for the species. Bottom log had fence through the middle, upper branches mostly center rotted. One pretty good log that produced this bookmatch, about 17 inches by a little over 4 ft each piece 8/4.
Rigidula? Farnesia?
Dodgy Loner is going for the gold, meanwhile, WDH had the right answer and I missed it :-[
Acacia greggii, Catclaw Acacia, Una de Gato in Spanish. Should be a tilde above the n.
Good job WDH ;D ;D ;D ;D
I'll have to get a harder one next time.....
Actually, I believe that Lee takes the first prize ;D.
That would certainly have been close to a national champion. The national champion Acacia greggii is in Red Rock, NM, and measures 77" in circumference (24.5" in diameter), 49' tall, with a 46' crown spread :P.
Looks like some beautiful wood. We should swap a USPS medium flat-rate box of wood. I can send you a variety of eastern hardwoods and you can send me some of your awesome desert hardwoods. :)
Quote from: Dodgy Loner on January 10, 2013, 11:07:05 PM
That would certainly have been close to a national champion. The national champion Acacia greggii is in Red Rock, NM, and measures 77" in circumference (24.5" in diameter), 49' tall, with a 46' crown spread :P.
Looks like some beautiful wood. We should swap a USPS medium flat-rate box of wood. I can send you a variety of eastern hardwoods and you can send me some of your awesome desert hardwoods. :)
That might be fun. Got any leadwood?
I have a farm in Missouri, so have many of the common species. Also don't have Carolina silverbells, or maybe something else weird.....
The tree was 24"DBH, growing where the tailwater from an irrigated field ran past it before dropping into the San Pedro Riverbed. Also the water table is only about 20'deep where it grew. Pretty much a use it or lose it deal when we cut it. The upper parts were already starting to break up. It actually had grown roots into the rotted interior, recyling the nutrients, I guess. :) :) :)
Quote from: WDH on January 10, 2013, 10:12:33 PM
Actually, I believe that Lee takes the first prize ;D.
He did call it an acacia, didn't he? :snowball: :snowball: ;D
Actually I suggested Devil's claw and said it looked like memosa.
This one had it's spread limited by some big Mesquites growing near it. I actually wondered about it when we cut it, just how big this one is compared to others.
There is a Condalia tree growing in a wash near the Pinacate Volcanos in Sonora just south of Arizona close to 4ft thick by something like 25ft tall by over 30 ft across. Easily national champion for the species if it were 10 miles further north. Now that is some awsome wood, if you have ever seen anything from the Rhamnaceae. Mirrors everywhere :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Also sinks in water.
sp gr 1.3
Dry
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Wood listed in 1880 census about trees of North America
Has a map of forests by state.
Big blob in southern Idaho says ENEXPLORED
Way cool.
Quote from: mesquite buckeye on January 10, 2013, 11:24:02 PM
Quote from: Dodgy Loner on January 10, 2013, 11:07:05 PM
That would certainly have been close to a national champion. The national champion Acacia greggii is in Red Rock, NM, and measures 77" in circumference (24.5" in diameter), 49' tall, with a 46' crown spread :P.
Looks like some beautiful wood. We should swap a USPS medium flat-rate box of wood. I can send you a variety of eastern hardwoods and you can send me some of your awesome desert hardwoods. :)
That might be fun. Got any leadwood?
I have a farm in Missouri, so have many of the common species. Also don't have Carolina silverbells, or maybe something else weird.....
If you want weird, I can get you weird ;D No leadwood, I'm afraid. I haven't spent much time in South Florida. But we have some stuff around here that you might find interesting. Besides silverbell (which I
might have a sample of...I'll have to check), is there anything specifically you're interested in? I've got a few in mind already. Would you like wood of a size that could be used for any specific purpose, or just some samples for reference purposes? (I keep samples in 1/2" x 3" x 6" sizes for my wood collection)
Is this the same catclaw I used to mutter to myself about when quail hunting? That ruined more pairs of pants than my first 8 yrs of life? Never I thought it never got more than 6 or 7 ft high. We called it the barbarian growth.
hooked spines like cats claws. Did you used to live in the SW ??? ???
Sounds like the same stuff. I bought a pair of brush chaps to help save the pants.
I lived in prescott arizona. When the housing bubble burst and the construction industry slumped I came back to logging. My wife still has family to visit there. Good excuse to go chase quail again.
I love the woods and logging, but I love the desert and mountains of the SW just as much
Both have their good points. If I'm in one, I miss the other ;D
Yup same over