Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Del the cat on August 23, 2013, 02:34:22 pm
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Saw these weird fruiting bodies on a small tree (10' tall) tree in the flood plain of a fast flowing clear stream. Lots of Willow nearby.
Can't find anything like it online.
Anyone know what it is?
Del
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I couldn't figure out from the picture....but this site might help. Hope it does!
http://www.arborday.org/trees/whattree/?TrackingID=908
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Fell at the first hurdle... I'm in the UK!
Del
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It has a drupe of some sort but one that I have never seen before. Is it a compound leaf, is it alternate or opposite, what does the bark look like? With answers to these questions I can run it through a key to possibly identify it. It does not look like anything I have ever seen so It may be indigenous to the UK and not native to the U.S.
Grady
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I think I have it identified, are the seeds inside the pods bright orange? It could very well be this plant.
Euonymus europaeus (spindle, European spindle, common spindle)
Grady
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Excellent! Cheers Autologus!, yup that's definitely the fellow! ;D
Del
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From what I read about it is it very hard wood so It might be bow wood.
Grady
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Definitely Eunonymus europaeus, it's said to be most excellent bow wood, I have some drying but not tried it yet.
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Definitely Eunonymus europaeus, it's said to be most excellent bow wood, I have some drying but not tried it yet.
Drat, it was in a nature reserve >:( I'd not seen fruit like that before, so I wondered what it was. I'm glad I didn't taste it... V poisonous!
Del
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:'( :laugh:
Go see the fruit in november, the tree will look magic. They're so beautiful I hardly dare cut some. Just kidding :P Spindletree has legendary status among german bowyers, though there are so few staves it might just be legend anyway. I hope to post a spindletree bow or two some time.