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Offline Del the cat

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Tree ID
« on: August 23, 2013, 02:34:22 pm »
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?
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2013, 02:45:26 pm »
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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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2013, 03:11:57 pm »
Fell at the first hurdle... I'm in the UK!
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2013, 03:18:07 pm »
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.

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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2013, 03:27:15 pm »
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)

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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2013, 03:41:58 pm »
Excellent! Cheers Autologus!, yup that's definitely the fellow! ;D
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2013, 03:44:19 pm »
From what I read about it is it very hard wood so It might be bow wood.

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Offline Jodocus

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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2013, 03:53:02 pm »
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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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2013, 04:12:25 pm »
Quote from: Jodocus on August 23, 2013, 03:53:02 pm
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!
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #9 on: August 23, 2013, 05:41:49 pm »
 :'(  :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.
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