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Title: never seen this wood before any clues?
Post by: mcginnis6010 on October 14, 2012, 04:24:17 pm

Pic 1

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Post by: mcginnis6010 on October 14, 2012, 04:26:15 pm

Bark pic

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Post by: Pat B on October 14, 2012, 04:45:26 pm

What does the rest of the tree look like? will you post pics of leaves and the overall tree?

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Post by: Josh B on October 14, 2012, 05:54:22 pm

It looks like a granddaddy Osage orange to me.  Beautiful rings on it too!  Josh

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Post by: mcginnis6010 on October 14, 2012, 06:09:10 pm

Sadly this tree is no more since it was blown down by that wind storm awhile ago.but what I can tell from the dead leaves still attached to some twigs it was a very broad leafed tree.

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Post by: Pat B on October 14, 2012, 06:26:35 pm

Any thorns on the twigs?

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Post by: TRACY on October 14, 2012, 06:56:13 pm

Osage!




Tracy

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Post by: seabass on October 14, 2012, 10:53:46 pm

sure looks like osage to me,but i am no expert.

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Post by: mcginnis6010 on October 14, 2012, 11:32:44 pm

yes it was thorny and if it osage then its pretty rare to find it around here i been looking hard for the large green fruit it produces and asking around and no one has ever seen one around here so i guess i just got lucky!

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Post by: osage outlaw on October 15, 2012, 12:16:26 am

Sure looks like osage to me.  Not every tree produces fruit.

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Post by: gstoneberg on October 15, 2012, 01:56:41 am

I'm pretty sure there are male and female trees with only the females dropping fruit.  I saw a big female osage in a front yard yesterday with more fruit on the ground than I'd ever seen under a single tree.  They were hauling off wheel barrel loads of the hedge apples and you could barely see the grass under the entire tree, probably a 50' diameter circle.  I wondered if I couldn't have gotten permission to cut that one out if I'd asked right then?  Anyway, that tree you have looks awesome, real thin sapwood and thick rings.  Should make good bows.

George

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Post by: chamookman on October 15, 2012, 08:00:43 pm

I have to agree with everybody - Osage.