Tree of the day

[Don P]

I don't know that I've ever had a loquat, do put up a pic.  Is the taste similar?, same skin reaction? Apparently with mangos if you are sensitive even handling the rind can cause a rash, the meat is fine just the skin has whatever the chemical is.

[caveman]

I do not have any loquat fruit pics.  They have been gone here for a month or so.  They are more cold tolerant than the mango so someone north of here may be able to post pics of the fruit as it may still be in season.  The loquat fruits are quite a bit smaller than a golf ball and usually have two or three brown seeds.  The fruit is fuzzy like a peach and is textured and tastes a little like a peach.  The mango has one, large seed about three to four inches long.

[LeeB]

Much off topic, but mangoes make an excellent wine.

[caveman]

Today's tree of the day.





 

 

[ellmoe]

 They are more cold tolerant than the mango so someone north of here may be able to post pics of the fruit as it may still be in season.  

Fruit has been gone for a couple of weeks "up" here. Bumper crop this year , very tasty!

[WDH]

Note that the terminal leaflet is aborted.  This is a distinctive characteristic of this species, separating it from its kin. 

[tule peak timber]

origin is Persia ?

[Southside]

Is that nut the lumber on your wall?  And how did you ever clamp down that "log" to get that mantle out of it?  :D

[Magicman]

I wish that you had a sample of the sapwood.  It would be easier to identify.....well for some folks anyway.  :D

[firefighter ontheside]

Does it have an oriental name?

[Don P]

More of a Stuckey's name

[WDH]

The inner bark is bright yellow.  The pore structure is semi-ring porous.  A dye used to made from the fruit involucre . 

[Don P]

, I better back up, black walnut

[btulloh]

"The fruit has been gone for a couple weeks . . ."  ??? That throws me.

[Southside]

The inner bark is bright yellow.  The pore structure is semi-ring porous.  A dye used to made from the fruit involucre .

And the first time you saw it the sap wood and sawdust will go from white to blue, to green, and make you wonder just how badly you have ruined said "highly valuable" lumber.   ;D

[caveman]

The tree of the day for 5/25 was black walnut (Juglans nigra).  Many recognized it right away.  WDH pointed out on this thread and another that the terminal leaflet of the black walnut leaf is aborted (absent).  If it is present, it will generally be smaller than the others and misshapen.  

Today's tree of the day (up late tonight) ...



 

 

 

[Ljohnsaw]

Something in the Juniper family?

[caveman]

Not in the Juniper family but it is a conifer that lacks fire tolerance.  

[WDH]

That is why you find it growing in alluvial swamps or in the water.  Also very long lived.  Even a small one only 10 - 12" in diameter can be hundreds of years old.  It has a much larger cousin that has two ranked leaves and can grow to over 10' in diameter.  The heartwood is very decay resistant.  One of the few deciduous conifers.  I was looking at some of the lumber and a red headed woodpecker pecked me.  

[Southside]

Cypress Somekindofous? 

[Magicman]

 

 
But did I say butt?

[tule peak timber]

Butt.... Wait a minute: question on the walnut, do farmers outside of California graft on the black root  stock for better nut bearing ?

[firefighter ontheside]

Taxodium distichum.

[nativewolf]

Butt.... Wait a minute: question on the walnut, do farmers outside of California graft on the black root  stock for better nut bearing ?

Not really farmed on east coast for some reason so we don't get the graft stock.  The clario you show pics of that cause so much drooling.. is not grown.  Perhaps in TX they could pull that off.  
For us it is black walnut and the fruit is sold but rarely in organized orchards like in CA, just a niche product.  Hard to shell the eastern black walnut but it is very tasty.

[tule peak timber]

The big nut top stock out here is from Persia, so I've read. The nuts from claro( J.Hindsii) are thick walled , small, and super tasty. I just missed out on a nongrafted orchard taken down due to age. The owner was selling exclusively to See's candy. I don't remember exactly the numbers but the logs went for something like 5 or 10 K-bucks each.  OUCH