The leaves are coming in. Tree ID?

[aznboi3644]

So this is the tree species I made a shortbow from last fall.  The wood turned out to be a really great bow wood.  Strong, elastic, takes heat treating well, and nice to work.

[Pat B]

Maybe a flowering crab apple.

[dylanholderman]

Do you have more pics of the tree? Looks like a young Bradford pear to me.

[Pat B]

I thought Bradford pear too but the leaves don't look right.
Either crab apple or Bradford pear would be good bow wood.

[aznboi3644]

Pretty much all of the tree have this weird greenish bark.  I plant to cut a bunch of corrugated drain pipe and sleeve a bunch of trees to grow branch free trunks so I can groom some Bow wood.  I’ll have to go tomorrow and take some pictures of these and some
Known Bradford pears.

These also have spiked thorns where new branches sprout.  Right now all of the Bradford pears around are in full bloom with little to no leaves so I don’t think this is Bradford pear,  but then again I’m no tree specialist.

I just know the bow I made from it last fall turned out real well and the wood is premium bow wood

[Pat B]

This could be an offspring from the supposedly infertile Bradford tree. You'll see them popping up everywhere near Bradford pears are planted. One identifying factor is the long spines on the branches.

[M2A]

It is pear variety. Nice find
Mike

[Hrothgar]

I'm completely ignorant of Bradford tree characteristics, so feel free to ignore me .There are dozens of different species of crab apple, many with thorns, some without. If your tree has pinkish buds but white blossoms it could be a common Chinese crab apple, either way it looks like a member of the rosales. Should be good material.

[Pat B]

The flower shows it is in the rose family but so are many other plants on earth.
The birds eat the Bradford pear fruit(that wasn't suppose to occur on these sterile trees to begin with) and deposit the seeds leaving the resulting offspring a nasty, thorny invasive exotic. And even though the Bradford pear has a week structure(steep branching results in included bark making the structure weak) the wood itself is strong and probably good bow wood.

[aznboi3644]

Upon further inspection it is a type of Bradford pear.  Great bow wood

[dylanholderman]

Good to know that others have made good bows from it, I have several pieces of it seasoning up in my garage for bows from a tree I cleared out of someone’s yard. And I’ve also started digging through my burn pile for carving projects from it too.
Reasonably hard/dense wood but still haze good work ability.