Is there a positive way to identify mullbery verses osage?
I cut wood from a known mullberry tree (has berries hanging). it was a kinda warm orange umber color but seasoning is turning it a kind of orange yellow.
I cut wood from what I thought was a down Osage tree and it was a flourescent yellow, like the osage stave I got from augie and 3 rivers. It is seasoning to a kinda warm yellow.
Now I can't tall the difference in the two logs.
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There was a moment when I thought perhaps I didn't have any Osage at all.
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How can you tell for certain.
And when it is cut from the log Osage will be bright yellow correct?
Also the suspected osage smells "anticeptic" almost insecticidal ? ?? it has a strong odor. The mullberry just smells like wood. They are are different right?