Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Lakota on January 28, 2013, 09:46:27 pm
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Does anyone have pics of a young osage tree maybe one or two yrs old, think I might have found a bunch along a local creek.Thanks for any help, and much appreciated. I need help to identify, has huge green thornes and slick bark.
Lakota
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Osage doesn't have slick bark, do a Google search
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This one is 3 or 4 years old. I just took this pic a few days ago. It is staked and lower limbs have been trimmed so it isn't as it would be in nature.
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/osagetreeJan2013002.jpg)
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Scott, the topic starter is asking for young osage saplings, not big trees. Hence, that topic is pretty useless for him, although it has really nice pictures :)
An osage sapling is best identified by its leaves. In winter, you need to identify based on the twigs and buds, which can be really difficult. Here are a few pictures taken from the internet of osage branches with good identification characteristics. A picture of an entire osage tree is useless to ID a young sapling in winter. Focus on the young bark, leaves, spines and buds.
(http://www.gpnc.org/images/jpegs/plants/osage_orange.jpg)
(http://forestry.sfasu.edu/faculty/jstovall/dendro//images/tree_photos/maclpomi/maclpomi_twig1.jpg)
(http://www.discoverlife.org/IM/I_TQBH/0026/320/Maclura_pomifera,I_TQBH2666.jpg)
(http://swbiodiversity.org/imglib/seinet/Moraceae/herb_sheets/Morac_Maclura_pomifera235925.jpg)
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Pats pic is right on. My buddy has 130 acres of the stuff and Im hear to tell you it looks JUST like that as a youngster. You can see that hue the bark has to it, it glows in my eyes!
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Thanks to everyone who posted pics and any other links, I guess what I have found is something else, thought I had found a gold mine.
Lakota