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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: outback118 on February 17, 2011, 03:51:33 pm

Title: Viburnum ID what do I have??
Post by: outback118 on February 17, 2011, 03:51:33 pm

This past fall I was looking for something to haft my points on and a friend pointed to a bush and said use that, its called Indian arrowood. so I cut a few shoots and put together some arrows and gave them away as decorations to hang on the wall. Well since then I have found that I have a 50 acer field of it growing out the back door.Also in my research to ID this stuff ( in the dead of winter with no leaves on or fruit) there are many species of Viburnum. the closest pic i can find to match the bark is V. Trilobum(highbush cranberry) the young growth is reddish to green and going to gray on the older growth. I know it will make good shafts , but need to know what I got for trading perposes.
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Title: Re: Viburnum ID what do I have??
Post by: JackCrafty on February 17, 2011, 07:35:25 pm

50 acres??  Dang.  Who cares what it is!   ;D  Some guys are just lucky, I guess.

Title: Re: Viburnum ID what do I have??
Post by: Pat B on February 17, 2011, 08:27:45 pm

Looks like red osier or silky dogwood. Where do you live?  Can you post a pic of the buds along the shoots?

Title: Re: Viburnum ID what do I have??
Post by: Outbackbob48 on February 17, 2011, 10:19:49 pm

Hey outback118, Pat B  got it. Looks like good ole red osier to me ;D also. Real plentiful in our area of Penna.  Later Bob

Title: Re: Viburnum ID what do I have??
Post by: sailordad on February 17, 2011, 10:20:32 pm

yup red osier
or  a variant of it,there are many
works well for arrows,but tends to need straightening
and can be stubbors to get straight
but your are pretty good from the get go

Title: Re: Viburnum ID what do I have??
Post by: Sparrow on February 18, 2011, 01:55:30 pm

 If you had fifty acres of highbush cranberry in your back yard,you'd have every bear in the state living there. That is some of the best berry jelly there is too ! (Smells like dirty socks when you cook it)  The berries stay on well into the winter.  '  Frank

Title: Re: Viburnum ID what do I have??
Post by: Mark Anderson on February 18, 2011, 02:07:42 pm

looks just like the silky dogwood I have in my back pasture. GREAT shaft material!
Mark

Title: Re: Viburnum ID what do I have??
Post by: aznboi3644 on February 19, 2011, 12:54:48 am

viburnum is completely covered in a white power that itches when it gets onto ur skin...well mine atleast