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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: bushboy on October 21, 2013, 01:35:11 pm

Title: tree I'd pls.
Post by: bushboy on October 21, 2013, 01:35:11 pm

This is a tree that grows in north eastern nova scotia.any ideas of the species would be great !thx's!

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Post by: NeolithicMan on October 21, 2013, 01:59:40 pm

Looks like mountain ash by the leaves and berries, can you post a bark photo?

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Post by: Don Case on October 21, 2013, 02:30:46 pm

Yup, Mountain ash.

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Post by: DarkSoul on October 21, 2013, 02:48:24 pm

Yup, "mountain ash" indeed, although that isn't an ash. Also called "rowan". Some species in the genus Sorbus, probably Sorbus aucuparia. Decent bowood! Run a search for the various names I listed.

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Post by: jpschersch on October 21, 2013, 03:38:35 pm

I mean, its a good looking tree...but I dunno if I'd please it...but you can do whatever you want.

;)

lol, sorry, I had to.

Yep, Mountain Ash.

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Post by: Don Case on October 21, 2013, 03:46:57 pm

We've got one in the front yard. I just have to convince my wife that it could do without that one straight trunk.  >:D

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Post by: dbb on October 22, 2013, 01:48:14 am

The berries picked after the first frost also make a superb gelly that goes very well with venison,and somewhere i have a recepie on them somehow picled in cognac that also is very good

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Post by: Greenman1867 on November 27, 2013, 07:37:49 am

Nova Soctia has a pretty good Tree ID website here. It's an interactive .pdf

http://www.novascotia.ca/NATR/forestry/treeid/TreeID2007.pdf