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Offline Puckaway

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Id these shafts?
« on: February 08, 2016, 09:07:29 pm »
Can anyone Id these shafts I just cut? They were growing in a swampy area. They had little hairs toward the tops where they got thin, and had little pods on the ends of the branches that resembled mini pine cones. Arrowwood viburnum? Its not red osier, which grows nearby.
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Offline Danzn Bar

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« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2016, 09:20:58 pm »
I don't think it's arrow viburnum.........
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Offline Pat B

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« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2016, 11:13:53 pm »
Tag alder? Scratch the bark and see if it turns orange.
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Offline Ed Brooks

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« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2016, 10:01:35 am »
 the bark looks like cascara in this part of the world. Can you get a picture of the hairs / cones? Cascara bark is used as a laxative you can tell pretty fast if its cascara if ya eat some >:D..LOL "no I"m not suggesting to eat it without knowing what you have" Ed
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« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2016, 10:54:37 am »
That looks like Cascara bark to me but I've only seen it on the staves I have.
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Offline Spotted Dog

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« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2016, 11:42:07 am »
They have the look of ash from around in in Missoura.
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« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2016, 01:52:57 pm »
Can you get pics of the cones and possibly the leaf buds?
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Offline wizardgoat

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« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2016, 01:56:35 pm »
Hazel?
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Offline Puckaway

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« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2016, 12:56:36 am »
My next guess was hazel.. I'm in WI. It grew in a cluster of similar sized shoots like osier. Its not tag
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Offline Puckaway

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« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2016, 01:10:20 am »
I took pics on my phone of the bush, and branches, but they won't load on here. I don't know if I can change the size..
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Offline loon

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« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2016, 03:33:05 am »
Upload them to imgur or postimage
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Offline Swampman

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« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2016, 10:47:22 am »
They look a lot like willow to me. I cut a bunch of that last year and it grew around red osier.  I should have just cut the red osier because it didn't make good shafts. If there is scaring when you peel the bark, then I would definitely say it is willow.  Hard to tell for sure with just those pictures though. I live in Minnesota and I cut mine along the Mississippi River.
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Offline sapling bowyer

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« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2016, 11:36:46 am »
some look like hazel some not. Especially the thicker one. Are you sure all those shafts are the same species?
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Offline Puckaway

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« Reply #13 on: February 11, 2016, 12:00:03 pm »
Yup. They all came from the same bunch growing in an area about the size of a compact tractor tire.
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Offline TimBo

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« Reply #14 on: February 11, 2016, 05:03:35 pm »
It could still be two different plants growing close together though.  The bottom and third from bottom look like they don't quite fit in.
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