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Offline outback118

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Viburnum ID what do I have??
« on: February 17, 2011, 03:51:33 pm »
This past fall I was looking for something to haft my points on and a friend pointed to a bush and said use that, its called Indian arrowood. so I cut a few shoots and put together some arrows and gave them away as decorations to hang on the wall. Well since then I have found that I have a 50 acer field of it growing out the back door.Also in my research to ID this stuff ( in the dead of winter with no leaves on or fruit) there are many species of Viburnum. the closest pic i can find to match the bark is V. Trilobum(highbush cranberry) the young growth is reddish to green and going to gray on the older growth. I know it will make good shafts , but need to know what I got for trading perposes.
 



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Offline JackCrafty

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Re: Viburnum ID what do I have??
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2011, 07:35:25 pm »
50 acres??  Dang.  Who cares what it is!   ;D  Some guys are just lucky, I guess.
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Re: Viburnum ID what do I have??
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2011, 08:27:45 pm »
Looks like red osier or silky dogwood. Where do you live?  Can you post a pic of the buds along the shoots?
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Offline Outbackbob48

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Re: Viburnum ID what do I have??
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2011, 10:19:49 pm »
Hey outback118, Pat B  got it. Looks like good ole red osier to me ;D also. Real plentiful in our area of Penna.  Later Bob
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Offline sailordad

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Re: Viburnum ID what do I have??
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2011, 10:20:32 pm »
yup red osier
or  a variant of it,there are many
works well for arrows,but tends to need straightening
and can be stubbors to get straight
but your are pretty good from the get go
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Re: Viburnum ID what do I have??
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2011, 01:55:30 pm »
 If you had fifty acres of highbush cranberry in your back yard,you'd have every bear in the state living there. That is some of the best berry jelly there is too ! (Smells like dirty socks when you cook it)  The berries stay on well into the winter.  '  Frank
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Offline Mark Anderson

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Re: Viburnum ID what do I have??
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2011, 02:07:42 pm »
looks just like the silky dogwood I have in my back pasture. GREAT shaft material!
Mark
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Offline aznboi3644

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Re: Viburnum ID what do I have??
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2011, 12:54:48 am »
viburnum is completely covered in a white power that itches when it gets onto ur skin...well mine atleast
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