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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: BowJunkie on June 21, 2011, 01:15:49 pm

Title: Help with Tree I.D.
Post by: BowJunkie on June 21, 2011, 01:15:49 pm

Anyone know what kind of wood this is?
Too long and too straight to pass it up.

Title: Re: Help with Tree I.D.
Post by: BowJunkie on June 21, 2011, 01:18:00 pm

Also the leaves.... Broad Heart shaped leaves, fuzzy on both sides.

Title: Re: Help with Tree I.D.
Post by: okie64 on June 21, 2011, 02:10:51 pm

Just going off the pics I'd say mulberry, hard to say though.

Title: Re: Help with Tree I.D.
Post by: BowJunkie on June 21, 2011, 02:53:30 pm

Here is pics of the leaf

Title: Re: Help with Tree I.D.
Post by: toomanyknots on June 21, 2011, 03:04:31 pm

The bark is very young mulberry-esk, but of course if there's no orange on the inside then it's probably not.

Title: Re: Help with Tree I.D.
Post by: Mangeur de lard on June 21, 2011, 03:09:00 pm

I'm pretty sure it's striped maple (acer pensylvanicum). It does usually grow straight and free of knots, albeit a bit rapidly. Medium to low density, could make a low-medium poundage bow if left wide and long.

Hope it helps!
cheers
Matt

Title: Re: Help with Tree I.D.
Post by: turmoiler on June 21, 2011, 03:30:10 pm

It is Broussonetia papyrifera "paper mulberry":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Mulberry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Mulberry)

It's an invasive tree from china, osage family but without heartwood. Never tried as bowwood but some years ago I cut a small tree and it cracked badly.