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Offline duke3192

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wood id help
« on: May 17, 2015, 09:35:17 pm »
A friend gave me this log, it is supposed to be mulberry, I've never seen mulberry this white or with rings this thick. I have heard of white mulberry, but haven't ever seen any, the bark seems to match what info I can find, also I am in Florida.
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Offline mwosborn

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Re: wood id help
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2015, 09:47:02 pm »
All the mulberry I have cut has light colored sapwood with much darker heartwood.  But there can be a lot of variation in species.  Ours around here is Morus rubra.  (red mulberry)
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Offline alwayslookin

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Re: wood id help
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2015, 09:48:58 pm »
That's the same mulberry I have here in Florida too. It's definitely mulberry. Makes a good bow
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Offline Pat B

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Re: wood id help
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2015, 11:43:34 pm »
I'd say its mulberry also but I don't know which specie.
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Offline chef-d405

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Re: wood id help
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2015, 11:51:37 pm »
Leaf pic looks right for mulberry. Never seen mulberry wood that color. mulberry is common as flies here in Oklahoma but the wood is 2 tone with yellowish white sapwood and yellowish orange heartwood. I'd bet on it being mulberry though.
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Offline turmoiler

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Re: wood id help
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2015, 05:46:18 am »
It looks like paper mulbery to me.
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Offline E. Jensen

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« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2015, 11:41:08 am »
Sure isn't a very old tree.  I counted 10 years old.  This AZ boy is still amazed at how fast trees when there is water haha.
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« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2015, 12:53:27 pm »
Looks like a paper mulberry to me as well.

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Offline JonW

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Re: wood id help
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2015, 07:13:50 pm »
I have not seen a Paper Mulberry that big but that looks like it.
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Re: wood id help
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2015, 09:18:41 pm »
Took a couple of hours today and split and sealed this, we'll see what happens when it is seasoned.
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Re: wood id help
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2015, 09:37:25 pm »
The friend that gave me this is doing development clearing in the Villages, in Fl.Wet lands that are being cleared, There is Southern Hackberry, and Crepemytrle that approach the size of this  mullberry there. He is going to try to save some of that also.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: wood id help
« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2015, 10:09:40 am »
I had a paper mulberry in my yard in Savannah that was at least 36" in diameter.
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Re: wood id help
« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2015, 05:22:16 pm »
Paper mulberry is a very invasive tree, it grows big and quick but its wood is light, soft and brittle. Ok for paper making but no good for bowyery  :-\ . You can try to make a bow but I think it won't work.
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« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2015, 08:07:29 pm »
Thanks for the replies, I'll let it season and see what happens, hopefully you'll still be around to see the results.
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Offline Hrothgar

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Re: wood id help
« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2015, 10:47:38 am »
I've never used paper mulberry before, but after doing a search on wood properties it seems to be similar to white ash in a lot of categories.
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