Author Topic: Mystery Wood???  (Read 2193 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

bowhuntinhillbilly

  • Guest
Mystery Wood???
« on: October 20, 2009, 11:36:02 am »
I have found a bunch of trees that I have found that i once believed to be osage orange, but when I cut one down they were white wood in the middle, much like hickory. The limbs have the small thorn-like spikes and the leaves look similar to osage, can anybody help me out?

Offline makenzie71

  • Member
  • Posts: 572
  • I can robin hood an arrow if I hit it just right.
Re: Mystery Wood???
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2009, 11:50:18 am »
pictures?
Goodbye, friends. I never thought I'd die like this. But I always really hoped. ~ Fry

Offline Kegan

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,676
Re: Mystery Wood???
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2009, 01:11:28 pm »
Thorns = bow wood. I vote make a bow out of it anyway and see how it shoots :).

As for what it really is, pictures would help alot.

Offline Dano

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,349
Re: Mystery Wood???
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2009, 01:35:20 pm »
Sounds like Locust.
"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."


Nevada

Offline Okie

  • Member
  • Posts: 601
    • Bear Creek Selfbows
Re: Mystery Wood???
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2009, 01:37:37 pm »
Black Locust? Are they tall and straight with thorns at the base of the leaves?
Take a kid huntin' (If not who'll drag your deer out when you get old)
<---------<<<Founding Member Oklahoma Selfbow Society>>>-----------> Vice President OSS

Offline Pat B

  • Administrator
  • Member
  • Posts: 37,532
Re: Mystery Wood???
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2009, 03:43:00 pm »
Locust has a compound leaf, not at all like osage. Could be one of the Callery pears like Bradford pear. Bradfords don't have the thorns but some of the others do.
  Pics would be a big help!
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC

Offline Timo

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,026
Re: Mystery Wood???
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2009, 04:01:47 pm »
My guess is Prickly ash. Hard to find one with any length or straightness around here. ;)

VenomBOWslinger

  • Guest
Re: Mystery Wood???
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2009, 07:48:41 pm »
Im not saying exactly what it is BUt where I live there are what we call a horse chestnut which have a spikey ball with a nut inside a Thorn berry which is probably slang for something Im not sure of each region has its own version I suppose... Always a good thing to post some pics and or look online for a tree identifacation guide for ur area!!!

Cheers!!!