Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: upstatenybowyer on December 02, 2016, 08:38:30 pm
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I'm hoping this is wild plum (Prunus americana), I know it grows in the area. It's gotta be either that or some kind of crabapple. It's on a friend's land so I sure hope it's plum...
I'm pretty sure both the yellow and red fruit are the same species.
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I don't think it's prunus americana, the trees I've found had very slim twigs and the fruit looked more like small oblong cherries. There was also a layer of bronze colored bark right underneath the outer bark.
Could still be another plum, or prunus though. I'm not sure.
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If it's a plum it will have a stone in the fruit. If it's a crabapple it will have 4 or 5 seeds like an , wait for it, apple ;D ;D. Either one makes a good bow. Start cuttin'
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either one "can" make a good bow.....
DBar
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I opened up a fruit and there was a pit-like casing with 2 seeds inside.
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Crabapple IMHO
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While Plums and Apples have relation the fruit is different as DC says.
Look at the end of the fruit. Plums, peaches, apricots, cherries and almonds are smooth, Apples and pears have the remnants of the flower on the end.
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Any leaves around the base to help ID it?
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Could just take a bite of the fruit. ;)
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May apple is a woodland plant. Thornapple is Hawthorne.
I think you guys are looking too hard. You can't walk into the woods in our area without running into apple of some sort.
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http://www.pbase.com/hjsteed/foliage_crab_apple
Heres good site give you an idea why i say crabapple
Upstate im from,,ah upstate NY and i shoit every morning at a plum tree in my yard i highly doubt its plum,,but thats my opinon
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That's crabapple, no doubt. Spent wayyyy too much of my childhood climbing one to miss that ID.
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I opened up a fruit and there was a pit-like casing with 2 seeds inside.
Like an almond sort of? Sounds like a plum to me. Apples have a core, small but its a core. Bite one of the fruits, if it's an apple it will taste like an apple. Our crabapples are super appley, if that's a word. Remember though, I'm on the other side of the continent ;D ;D
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Like Pat said, take a bite and clear up the mystery. I walk an exercise trail with red and yellow crabapples along the path, the trees look just like the ones in your pictures.
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Okay... Tastes like an apple, looks like an apple, smells like an apple, it must be... wait for it DC... and APPLE!
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I cut a couple of staves of crabapple here a few days ago. They looked like they were starting to warp within a half hour of splitting so I clamped them to a 2x4. You might want to watch for that. I've made two Crab bows and both really benefited from a good heat treat.
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So I roughed one out yesterday, a shorty- 46" with a good deal of natural reflex.
I did this in about 2 hrs. I found that it I get a piece down to an almost-ready-to-tiller place, and seal the ends and back, I get no checking or warping no matter what type of wood it is.